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 poetry full of sand and hourglass imagery and losing time in my day. And...
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 expression sad and not startled or fearful. “Someone has died,” he explained. I...
As a white person, it is my responsibility to dismantle white privilege, white supremacy, and institutionalized racism. While I believe that as writers it’s our calling to make the world better, to share deep, often painful and challenging truths, I see that...
As you gear up to start a new writing routine and set new goals (or recommit to a routine and goals) for your writing this year, I want to share my manifesto for staying the course with your writing this year. Starting new writing projects can be thrilling and...
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 explain.The message that my story isn’t special landed the hardest the day I...
