A grad student’s routine, nostalgia for a Cambridge food truck, and a dare…

The cherry custard tart that fell from the heavens.

It’s still spring according to both the calendar and to my itchy eyes and nose — but temperatures rose above ninety degrees in New England, and I’m craving the sort of meal you’d eat while sitting outdoors on metal furniture as the smells of a bistro grace the heavy summer air.

Awareness of punctuation.

This second chapter of Steering the Craft shows off some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s sense and humor. She admonishes “grammar bullies,” and makes the point that many grammar rules are…

Practicing the sound and rhythm of language.

I’m pacing my way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft, a handbook on the craft of writing¹. I admire what Le Guin has to say about literature…