I have always been a fiction writer at heart, but before I committed myself fully to fiction, I worked in film, writing screenplays and directing films, simultaneously teaching film production and screenwriting. It’s a cardinal rule in...
My Life in Words
I am in college, traversing the campus, wearing a pink wool sweater, an aberration for me as I have always eschewed the color pink as too girlie. But this sweater was a gift from my father, and so I’m giving it a chance, noticing how different it...
Revisiting the Books of Childhood
In a recent flurry of bookshelf reorganizing, I came across the collection of books saved from my childhood. Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, A Wrinkle in Time, Half Magic, Stuart Little. Charlotte’s Web, The Secret Garden...
Electronic Reading
A few months ago a friend decided she didn’t like reading on her Kobo and she gave it to me. The timing was perfect. I had just returned from a 5-week trip on which I’d run out of reading material. Though I have been staunchly resistant to...
A Reading Challenge
Goodreads has put out a New Year’s challenge, encouraging people to state how many books they’ll read in the coming year, hoping that going public with such a number will, like joining Weight Watchers, goad people to read more. I have no idea if...