Dear John

I put this handwritten page in a copy of my novel because I thought you would throw out a lone letter addressed to you from me. I signed the back cover of the book and I want you to have it because if not for you I may not have finished writing it. Whether you […]

Goodbye My Love {see you later}

Does anyone else end up evaluating their entire existence when they get sick? I really hope I’m not the only person who swirls into this lost and lonely abyss. I don’t get sick often but when I do it feels like I got hit by a truck. Recently, I came down with a bad cold […]

Mondays are for Memoirs

Being a writer who can’t write is a frustration all its own but even in the midst of struggle, having drafts on drafts with no decent material, I still don’t believe in writer’s block. I feel like it’s an excuse more than anything. That’s like not working out because you’re not a bodybuilder, you have […]

Whatever.

Sometimes the best book is one you love to hate. I finished Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell and I couldn’t stand it, but I actually really liked it. That’s the best way I can describe my feeling toward this novel as seesaw as it sounds. I liked it as much as I did not. For […]

Amazingly Grey

When it comes to black and white issues, things that have obvious reasons-there’s a good side and a bad side. There are those in the black and those in the white. Leaving things that way though, with two highly opinionated sides shouting at each other across the invisible dividing line doesn’t do much of anything. […]