I’m having trouble being stupid. Productively stupid, that is. I have infinite reserves of unproductive stupidity – ignoring my car’s oil light, losing my wallet, hiring the wrong person. That’s the variety of a presidential candidate forgetting during a national…
Full disclosure: I’m Fiction Editor for TIFERET: A Journal of Literature & Spirituality. We launched our remodeled website today. I’m also a writer who has subscribed to numerous literary magazines since he was a poor college student. So, I have…
1. A “media expert” said a few things yesterday that got me questioning. “Our attentions spans are shrinking,” she said, “So we need to speak in sound bites so we can speak directly to what people need. If you can…
As a creative, sometimes you forget your purpose and you “to-do” more than “ta-da!” One of my clients recently lost his way and it nearly derailed his creative project. He works as a consultant for a high-pressure corporation (redundant?) organizing…
When I was a tow-headed boy, The Box in the Woods down the road kept my secrets. In the middle of The Woods towered a maple, an “X” carved with a butter knife in its bark. With no other kids…
The iWonder Tracker’s footprints The Mac ii – In 1985, my first one changed my college life and my writing life forever.
1. A Girl Anita grew up in India’s caste system, poor and with limited options. So it seemed. Her parents wanted her to do what any “respectable” girl should do: Get married. Serve her man. The unspoken assumption: Perpetuate her…
A few months after Carol Sanford’s son Kirk died prematurely, as a writer she didn’t square off with or mine her heart, per se. She turned to her son’s astronomy notebooks. And then she felt her way into metaphor and…
As a guy whose advice for creatives to flourish often goes something like “Find yourself in getting lost” and “Move toward the difficult,” and as a guy who shucked a comfy sure-thing academic job twelve years ago to pursue something…
In February 2006 – weeks following the Oscar-winning Capote’s release and just weeks before the Oscars were announced – I had the good fortune to interview the film’s director Bennet Miller about the boundaries between truth and fiction in both…
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