October 2012

Art manifests our deepest passion, our unanswered questions and our willingness to walk on shaky ground. Attempting to segregate art from life would be like plucking the stars from the sky, holding the sea from the shore, or eliminating the subtext from your conversation. As Tim O’Brien says of his fictional memoir, The Things They Carried,  “…life gives us stuff. It gave Conrad the ocean, which he used in his stories. Life gave Updike domesticity and divorce and the suburbs, which he uses as material. And life dealt me the Vietnam card. Yet I don’t consider myself a Vietnam writer, any more than Morrison considers herself a black writer. We’re writer writers. And we use what life gives us.” Read More »

The experience of creating this website may go down as one of my greatest learning experiences. I resisted the idea of having a site for years, thinking all kinds of convincing inaccurate thoughts. This sophisticated form of procrastination allowed me to reconcile not taking the steps required to make it happen i.e. not taking stock of my achievements and non-achievements. I also knew that I didn’t have the marketing and technical skills required for the task. I thought that perhaps I would just wait for the day that I miraculously woke up and had somehow acquired this expertise from the I-Cloud or facsimile! Read More »