I sit at our dining table to write, while my kids play beside me. They often talk to imaginary “good” guys and “bad” guys, and today is no exception. My four-year-old lays on the floor, scowling at...

With the rhythms and events that normally shape our days cancelled or viewed through a window, I’m often dazed and my perception of time is off. I spent the first month of the pandemic writing...

One morning as I was staying with my in-laws’ in Cairo, I woke up to the sound of what I thought were screams. I turned to my partner and found him also awake and was surprised to find his...

The biggest epiphany I had about my writing in the last year is that there is nothing special about my story. This sounds like a terrible epiphany, I realize! But it was so liberating. Let me...

Does Writing Need to be Hard? “To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.” Arne Garborg As writers, I think we all have times when...

For several years after my first book came out, I didn’t write and I’d sometimes wonder in those years, Am I still a writer?My answer then was a firm no, because I believed the maxim, “Writers...