Energy

The start of an essay on Writer’s Block

Two things have happened over the past week: I let my daily routine of posting here slip…

The Enumerator

Some months later, after going on with the Census Bureau full-time, Adelaide will be sitting in a vast room in Manhattan with a hundred other women, working through the census sheets from other districts in New York City, calculating the sums of each page and placing the sheets in great binders that…

Notebooks

Over the past two years, I’ve worked my way out of a 20-year writer’s block. Or, less dramatically, I started writing regularly again after a 20-year hiatus.

Through this process, I’ve had to watch out for patterns of thought and activity that would take me back to the place where I…

Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy: Aaron Lacrate, Baltimore Pt. 1