The Amazon Speaks

It’s 2017, a chilly Monday night, and I’m standing near the back of the floor crowd at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Swaying along to…

[Part 1 is here. Ed. note: this took a bit longer to get to than I imagined it would. Funny how a major death takes the time it takes to…

I spent a splendid weekend in New Jersey, which is not a sentence I ever expected to say. Granted, I grew up there, so one hopes I have…

Below is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, The Somerville Light. Robinson is one of my protagonists, who sprung fully formed in the…

For the longest time, before I was married, I could never imagine changing my name. I thought the idea of changing your name just because…

I wrote the below last year after finishing Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, then starting Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Tl;dr: Having my…

I’m coming up on six months since my father died, and about a month after that, we’ll finally be doing a memorial for him. His family and…

Originally posted here at my Patreon.

Speak well, but not too loudly, or for too long. Your long pauses and considerations of just the right word are cute when you are four, but…

So I’m a Gen-X-er. A late Gen-X-er, to be sure, but one nonetheless. There are internet quizzes that seem to indicate that I’m one of those…

I started a Patreon some time ago and haven’t been tending it all that well, but I’m working on improving that. I’ve written some bits…

I can’t watch anything anymore without seeing it through the lens of social justice, and while that’s annoying sometimes, it’s way less…

I write theatre reviews for The Arts Fuse, and I recently went to see an experimental piece by New York-based Wolf 359 called temping. It…

Last month, Black Lives Matter Boston held an event called “In Their Own Words” at a huge Unitarian church in the center of Boston. The…

November was not a great month.

Since The Election That Dare Not Speak Its Name, I have been steadily attempting to keep myself out of the pit of despair that yawns daily…

“Ya know they murdered X And tried to blame it on Islam He turned the power to the have-nots And then came the shot” -Rage Against the…