My twitter friend Agness Bookbinder, has been doing these thirty minute writing exercises with herself and inviting friends to join her. So even though I’ve been writing all day I decided to join her, and when I thought about what I wanted to talk about it, I realized […]
When I was thirteen I was hospitalized by a man who turned out to be a pedophile. I was not directly abused by him, but I do believe that the reason that my abusers found me, was because of him. In fact I am absolutely certain of it, […]
If you want to be a writer, start fucking writing something. Stephen King says that if you don’t read books you can’t be a good writer, and to a certain extent I believe that, but I also believe at a certain point it’s time to stop reading books, […]
I heard a story recently about the first person in the world, to complete the Ironman Race, while living with Downs Syndrome. This is my favorite story of the week. His name is Chris Nikic and he is twenty-one years old. He is twenty-one. OH and he has […]
I wrote a fucking book. I wrote a book AND I published a book, on my own without anyone’s help, and while it might have been a “better” book if I’d had it edited, it was important to me to release it the way I wanted to, without […]