Settle and Seattle
I started the Road to Nowhere books in San Francisco because I knew the city. I had lived here a couple of years, gotten to know the beat of the streets and...
I left something behind.
When I was in Missouri last month, I left my laptop cord behind. I was teaching undergrads at Truman State University in Kirksville. I had a great week; the...
I left something behind.
When I was in Missouri last month, I left my laptop cord behind. I was teaching undergrads at Truman State University in Kirksville. I had a great week; the...
Trying to outrun time.
It is tempting, always, to talk about time. Time is the fire in which we burn, and I'm feeling awfully hot these days. I want to tell you that I am sure, in...
Trying to outrun time.
It is tempting, always, to talk about time. Time is the fire in which we burn, and I'm feeling awfully hot these days. I want to tell you that I am sure, in...
Wait a minute honey, I'm gonna add it up.
I am so ready for 2018 to end. I've had a really good year, in many ways. I sold a novel, I sold a novella, I sold a lot of stories. I traveled all over and...
Wait a minute honey, I'm gonna add it up.
I am so ready for 2018 to end. I've had a really good year, in many ways. I sold a novel, I sold a novella, I sold a lot of stories. I traveled all over and...
I had to wait until the right time to tell you.
I couldn't have written this letter before the midterm elections. I was too nervous, too fixated, and too worried about the outcome. This letter would have...
I had to wait until the right time to tell you.
I couldn't have written this letter before the midterm elections. I was too nervous, too fixated, and too worried about the outcome. This letter would have...
Pumpkin Spice Flavored Rage
It's been a month of collectively re-processing old traumas and offering to hold other people's hurt and asking them to hold mine. There were a couple of...
Pumpkin Spice Flavored Rage
It's been a month of collectively re-processing old traumas and offering to hold other people's hurt and asking them to hold mine. There were a couple of...
Dracula was right.
I have the luckiest and strangest life. I have an inflated unicorn on a speakeasy stage life. I have a do the Time Warp with George R. R. Martin life. A...
Dracula was right.
I have the luckiest and strangest life. I have an inflated unicorn on a speakeasy stage life. I have a do the Time Warp with George R. R. Martin life. A...
The sound of thunder never stops on the glacier.
Before our ship reached Hubbard Glacier, assumed it would be silent there. I am long accustomed to the wonderful quiet of snow and cold places, and beyond...
The sound of thunder never stops on the glacier.
Before our ship reached Hubbard Glacier, assumed it would be silent there. I am long accustomed to the wonderful quiet of snow and cold places, and beyond...
Everything I meant to tell you.
The last Letter from Meg was lost. It will exist in the great one-sock wilderness, where all lost things go. It will lie among the millions of letters lost...
Everything I meant to tell you.
The last Letter from Meg was lost. It will exist in the great one-sock wilderness, where all lost things go. It will lie among the millions of letters lost...
April is the cruelest month.
Yeah, it's the tax thing. But it's also raining deadlines around here, and the weather is one kind of torture or another, every day. This month saw my...
April is the cruelest month.
Yeah, it's the tax thing. But it's also raining deadlines around here, and the weather is one kind of torture or another, every day. This month saw my...
There's no such place as Florida.
Think about it. Think about every Florida Man story you’ve ever shook your head at, trying to make sense of the headline. Think of the miles of coastline...