Father's Day: A Master's Class in How to Write Dialogue
Most dialogue practice connects somehow to observation. For example, a quick search about writing dialogue leads you to a Master Class...
Still Working on Kind
Most weekends for dessert, I choose a movie to watch on Netflix. I was pleasantly surprised to see Divergent as a 'new' option.  No...
Graduation Day(s)
As a professional, I always worked in educational programming. However, my current position was the first time I was involved in...
The Unofficial End of Spring
If Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer, then it must also be the unofficial end of spring. If not in the calendar...
A New Way of Feeling
Love is a form of sweet labor -- fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary...
Cake Decorating is a Construct
Open conversation class often teaches that topics can be more illuminating when your vocabulary is limited. For example, several months...
The Price of Salt
"A Thursday evening?" "Ok. Now the next difficult thing. . . time and place?" I paused. I considered the kinds of interesting things...
Two Books: An Introduction Part VIII
The email came. Its title read, "What has Passover meant to you this year?"  I clicked to reveal more questions inside, "What bonds are...
Tied Up
I am a library builder. For over 10 years, I created, crafted and curated libraries, usually the kind without walls.   It's not often. ...
Character (Traits): A careful definition
"The most careful thing is to dare." -Shimon Peres My goal this year was to fly. Not literally, fly, but the imagining of it. I would...
