I love teaching writing workshops, and have not been able to do so because of long haul COVID, but now that I have a draft, however...

My yearbook photo in 1981...this is the age I feel emotionally (17 and on the precipice, with waves almost knocking me over but instead...

So, I thought I was quoting Leonard Cohen with the line Life is not a victory march, but no, I am paraphrasing him. He wrote Love is not...

It was two years ago today that I was officially diagnosed on the autism spectrum. That journey began where I will be in a few hours—on...

To celebrate, I am hosting New Virtual Coffee Chats with amazing authors who blurbed THE MORTALITY SHOT, will be reading, posting new...

I wrote about the Inaugural Virtual Coffee Chat with Nick Walker on November 30 at 5pm Eastern in the last blog, but wanted to remind you...

You are invited to the first live in person reading of Respairation or you have to unmute yourself, Nov. 13 at Brick Aux for the Brooklyn...

You are invited to an exciting book launch and conversation about Aging Dangerously! This is me holding the first copy of the actual book...

Since this past spring, so much has happened, it's kind of extraordinary. And the fruits of two large endeavors are emerging right now....

The photo above is from Westray, an island north of Scotland. I found the Orkney Isles in 2003, a strange sideways gift of my world...

This is a photo of the light at sunset on Westray in the Orkney Isles when the clouds have taken over. I think it's magic. I should be...

My sexually liberated grandmother, Jani Mace, age 62 and me age 15, Christmas 1978 Welcome Spring in the North! Below is info from my...

(dispatches from another weird year - sent as newsletter and now as if by magic: blog post!) "All of you is welcome here." I first heard...

A detail from Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 3, 1907 by Hilma af Klint This Christmas Eve day I felt something new, a sense of mystery,...

Today I found out that my friend Jill died in May of liver failure and breast cancer. Her sister contacted me when she saw my text...

A good sound track while reading this post may be Another Green World by Brian Eno. I now do my morning yoga to this album, which was...

Below is the newsletter I sent out to folks yesterday, repurposed as a blog post for the site. The space in the writing workshop is now...

The next sessions of Inwood Writing Workshops will be held on Zoom beginning in September due to COVID restrictions. You can go to...

Performing original piece 'You're Dead' in 2008 on a bus in UK in a Clint Eastwood mask Failure and resiliency are two words that have...

I am still recovering from COVID so any fuzzy thinking here please attribute to my weird mush of body and mind. But I have been mulling a...