There’s no way I’m going to finish this novel by the end of November. And that makes me very sad. I very much want the satisfaction of writing “The End” after 50,000 words of fiction. But I’m going to keep plugging away at it. Maybe I can catch up over Thanksgiving weekend. I still have [...]

The weather outside this morning is a perfect mirror of my insides.
It has been raining, and as I leave my apartment, the world is covered in a slick, slippery coat, the kind of surface that thoughts and memories slide right off. There is a thin layer of sticky, blanketing fog, and the trees stand barren, [...]