My post yesterday described some of my post-MFA malaise. One of the things you lose after the MFA is the pre-arranged community of the...

I knew it before I graduated. I even talked about it in my graduating seminar presentation. The post-MFA writing life is difficult. As I...

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Thanks to Epiphmag.com for publishing my story, Dudley’s Sacrifice, in their current online issue. If you follow this link, you can read...

I mentioned the other day I was planning to post a listing of the books I’ve read (or, in a couple of cases, books I’m close to...

If you are online and engaged in any level of social media besides interacting with your closest friends and relatives, you get spam....

How does one monetize an MFA (Creative Writing) degree? I’ll let you know once I’ve figured it out. Sure, there is the possibility of a...

January is quickly coming to a close. While I pursued my MFA, I kept a reading log. It was a requirement of the program, and it was...

In her recent blog-post response to my 7-7-7 post, my online writer-friend Jen Luitwieler talks about my new “fancy fountain pen” which...

I usually promote other writers or blogs or interesting Twitter folks on Friday, with my “Friendly Friday” posts, but I decided to do it...

As I mentioned the other day, my blog has become much more active in the last few months. There are any number of reasons why, and there...

I have a very real and tactile memory of a great number of things from my elementary school, Adams Elementary, in Hamilton, Ohio. I can...

Sometime during the day, yesterday, my blog had it’s 20,000 visit… Yes, there are blogs that receive that many visits every week. Some...

I finished my MFA last week. Queens has a “fifth residency” as a component of the low-residency MFA program. The fifth residency is quite...

One of the exciting, and scary, things about turning the page on another chapter in life is the way the world sort of opens up, for a...

Things have been quiet. I know it. I am at my graduating residency and I’ve not had a chance to blog, or respond to emails, or post...

I posted a few weeks ago about my story, Solomon’s Ditch, being featured at Ozone Park Journal. Since I often get questions like, “What...

Oh, the “top of the year” lists abound, so why not add one to it. So here, for your reading pleasure, the top blog posts for Stories I...

Holiday get-togethers–friends, family, the spouse’s work party, the church choir social–can be a precarious time for the fledgling...