The first Saturday morning I left our apartment to dedicate a block of time to writing, I simply hoped to find a seat at the coffee shop near an electrical outlet.   I arrived at the Starbucks on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, some time around ten am. All week, I’d been looking forward […]

I’m connecting today to a post by Elizabeth Graver, whom I had the opportunity to study with at Boston College.   I’m launching into a new project that feels like it’s going to take five years to write just a first draft. For more immediate gratification, I’ve been working on a short story, a nonfiction […]

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that this blog is called, “What I Learned While Training for a Half Marathon.”   Okay, go.   What I learned over the past twelve weeks, while I was, indeed, training for a half marathon, is that I need to do something consistently before I can do it well.   […]