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Two years ago I was running a writers’ meetup on Zoom, and it was moderately healthy, with half a dozen active writers, critiqueing each other. And I was also workshopping my novel at a novelists’ workshop out of Burlington Vermont. Both groups lost active members and dropped below a critical size. Both are gone now,…

I grew blue impatiens as a houseplant because it had an indigo-ultraviolet aura that was beguiling but very hard to see. I’ve wanted to be a writer, for a long time, and the prospect of success was like that flower–beguiling, And hard to see how it might happen. One day I turned a corner, and…

Places where I’m workshopping….

It would be fitting if a moment of cosmic inflation would fill this little universe in the nano-blink of an eye. Followed of course, by a Hot Big Bang. But at the current rate, where the Planck time is effectively a single keystroke, things will take a bit longer.