This essay on religion, science, gender and the Earth is one of the most difficult things I’ve written. Part One ~ Part Two The composition process felt like…
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I’m super excited and frankly stunned to learn that I’m the winner of the Sherman Chaddlesone Flash Fiction Contest. My story, “Kerry Was in the…
I’m honored to have work featured in Return to Mago. It’s an online magazine dedicated to “the Primordial Knowing originating from the Great Goddess, Mago.” Here’s more…
Hopefully you’ve been following my column on Mid-City Messenger, now into its second year. I’m doing my best to keep up a regular weekly rhythm,…
Suddenly my personal bibliography has quadrupled. I’m honored to have essays in two new collections. As if that’s not enough, I’m also thrilled to announce…
I’m happy to announce I’m writing a column for Mid-City Messenger. Here’s the first installment: “Happy New Year, Egg Roll Man.”
I know I shouldn’t be excited about something so grim but nevertheless I am happy to announce that Please Forward will soon be available in bookstores (officially on August 15) and is now available for pre-order at all the usual places, including my favorite bookstore.
This anthology collects online writings that erupted in the aftermath of the flooding of New Orleans in 2005. As such, it’s a topic that’s near and dear to my heart, upon which I have expounded at some length.
I’ve been doing it again: writing elsewhere. I’ve just finished up a series of six essays for College Contemplative on the topic of “Contemplative Faculty…
I recently read Toby Tyrrell’s new book, On Gaia, which provoked me to write three short essays. The first is a review of the book,…
I promised to write about my three regular practices: meditation, baking, and writing. The last topic should be the easiest to address. I’ve been doing…
If I haven’t written here as much lately, perhaps it’s because I feel constrained from public discussion of many of the topics which are currently…
It’s been a little over five years since I started blogging here in earnest. I thought this would be a simple extension of the journal-writing…
I took two weeks off. During that time I barely left Orleans Parish, except for a couple errands. I rode my bike into Metairie via…
I did it! I finished my novel. It’s not the 50,000 words required by NanoWriMo. It’s only 21,469 words. So it’s not actually long enough…
I’m at 15,508 words. The month is more than half over. Ideally I should be over 25,000 words at this point. I seem to be…
I’ve been working on this novel for seven days now, and I’ve written 7,402 words. They’re not necessarily good words, but NaNoWriMo is about quantity,…
I think I’m going to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. I’m going to try to write a novel in thirty days. I don’t…
Fifteen years ago today, I was arrested on the campus of Indiana University for not wearing clothes. Even after all this time, I can’t think…