What I’ll say instead
I had planned to write about how being a writer and an editor often invades the way I read for pleasure. It was going to be specific and insightful. Then…
The job I’m leaving
In two days, I'll no longer be an editor working in business development for a multinational engineering and science consulting firm. I've tied most of my editing career to this…
I’ve lost the glue that holds my thoughts together
Despite the state of all this, I choose to begin with the assumption that everything in my life now is exactly how my life should be. All the emotional puzzles.…
What Story Am I Telling?
"The ordinary life though is part of our story and every story connects to every other story through time." - Shawna Lemay The shortest version of this story is that,…
Not all odes are love poems
It's too simple to say you are a candy I've never tasted. You ask me to go to the circus with you. I buy peanuts. Neither of us enjoy eating…
Love Notes in the Margins
I invite you into my words. My words aren't me, your words aren't you, but this is the only type of intimacy I understand. When I attend, I'm the tip…