Great news today! My non-fiction piece “Run Time” will appear in Booth, a wonderful literary journal produced by Butler University. The piece is broken up into vingettes, each with a different motion picture focus. My attempt was to use a unique narrative progression–how we age with films, remember them, imprint them on our lives–and juxtapose those pieces with past emotional events.

I’m in the Bay Area…I always think of “Lights” by Journey…for my sister’s wedding. Beautiful yesterday, rainy today, and too much interstate, but my sister is so happy and all of the family is together so it’s a pretty amazing time. I haven’t had a rejection letter in a while so I’m wondering if everyone is taking a holiday break and I’ll have 20 “no thanks” messages on Jan 3rd. We’re driving back to Colorado … Continued

I’m currently working on a piece of creative non-fiction that deals with the times I’ve acted (or not) in moments of emergency, and the odd consequences that followed. A choking baby, a boy hit by a car who hops up and bikes off, a seizured woman I ignore; it’s guilt and lust and pride at once.