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I wouldn’t call myself a children’s book writer, but I have been writing stories for tweens for the last two years (only one of the five have been published…ugh) and I’ve learned something that needs to be addressed: kids are smart. My editors, who I value as friends and bosses, and the higher-ups have made [...]

Its been a while.  A long while. Since I last wrote I went back to college after a five year hiatus, got engaged, and graduated.  After that has been a bit of a blur.  Wedding planning hasn’t gone as we had hoped – you know, simple and easy – and we’re both trying to figure [...]

So, yes, I was gone for a while there.  And for this, I’m truly sorry…sort of. It’s been a crazy few weeks .  There’s been SoulPancake set backs and visits to Chicago and the spending of the majority of my time doing class work. This will all lead up, joyfully, to Spring Break, which is [...]

Update: I’m also working on a Twitter project with my good friend Adam Dunn.  You’ll hear more about this soon, we’re hoping. It’s been a week since my last post(s), and I felt it necessary to, again, remember that I need to write in this thing as often as possible.  Here we go, folks! As [...]

It’s been quite a while and I wanted to catch you all up to speed. This is going to be quite the post… Last time you heard from me was on the 12th, immediately before heading back up to Chicago to venture out to Oprah’s Harpo Radio studio on the 16th. To sum up that [...]

Well, here I am.  I’ve moved.  And after a morning devoid of an internet connection, scant for my iPhone, and no heat, I sit here trying to form my thoughts into something coherent and worthwhile to write about.  This is what I’m left with…Soul Pancake is becoming a reality! On Friday, January 16th I’ll be [...]

A second head is key. Or, if you want to think about it differently, another opinion is key. I’m realizing this more and more. Finally, letting the absolute fact seep in that the ideas in my head might require some editing. Some polishing. But there’s a criterium in these things. They have to want to [...]

Since the holidays, the same holidays I don’t celebrate, began I’ve found myself busied by the giving of tours, purchasing clothes and presents for upcoming birthdays, and generally being lazy. It’s infuriating and lacking the structure that made having a job in an office so much easier. So, I sit here on the train, right [...]

I’m sitting here at a party, watching folks playing games and conversing about death and the spiritual world to come, and thinking about what I’ve done so far. There are a couple factors that enter into these thoughts: 1) death and whether or not I’m ready for it, and 2) the stories I’ve been working [...]

Today I haven’t done much “work”, per se.  Which is an odd thing to say, really, and not necessarily the truth.  I’ve spent today reading and just generally being a sponge.  It is in doing this that I realize the absolutely necessity of such a posture for a writer.  And I’ll explain why after this [...]