It’s early morning and my husband is outside tending to his tomato plants. He moves among them with an electric toothbrush, buzzing the blossoms to encourage them to pollinate and produce more tomatoes. When he’s done, he moves onto the lettuce...
Time Out of Time
When I was teaching college-age and graduate fiction writers, I liked to use an exercise called “Braiding Time” to encourage the students to think about the interior lives of their characters and getting closer to understanding their habits of...