Lessons from the Bloodchild

Good writing is about the work, not the writer.

2017 by the Book

A friend of mine posted the following on Facebook: “Grab the nearest book. Flip to page 117. The second sentence.  This is your life in 2017.”   The first book I grabbed was Shrunk & White’s Elements of Style, which is only 85 pages, so I looked to the right and pulled Dorothea Brande’s Becoming a Writer from

In Eudora’s House

Standing before Eudora’s books, on Eudora’s sleeping porch, in Eudora’s house I saw the truth of my life.