A decade or so ago, when I was in my mid-twenties, I volunteered to teach ESL to senior citizens in Chinatown. At one point others decided to join in. It was a change I had to get used to — being the only instructor to be one of two, then…

A friend handed me the new memoir The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy saying she thought I might like it. I had highly suggested Melissa Febos’ new memoirs Abandon Me thinking the same. I’d heard vague things about Levy’s book, more so due to the author’s status in…

I was telling a podcast guest this just yesterday: There’s very little that I won’t say to someone’s face. This is a positive and a negative. …

Yesterday, on an uncharacteristically pleasant day since I arrived in Nebraska, I decided to go to the local park. Going further I figured I’d swing by Arbor Lodge mansion, heralded by locals. A little bit further and I ended up inside, purchasing a ticket to roam the 50+ room home…

More than 80 people are “pending” in my Facebook friend request queue. The avatars of people I may have met, but for the most part have not, sit side by side to buttons asking if I’d like to ‘Confirm’ or ‘Delete.’ The majority of these requests are from women, a…

I know I don’t need to go into the specifics of this year’s presidential election. We all watched it and felt it in various ways. But the endgame isn’t what many of us saw or hoped for. At this moment I haven’t eaten anything solid in almost 24 hours. …

Many pursue other avenues of financial support when it comes to a decline in revenue from writing. — The writing life, like many other careers, is one with its own hardships both financially and creatively. In my pre-teens I was surrounded by books knowing little about the economics of how they came about. I had a stream of ideas and that well didn’t look to be going dry…