It’s been a pretty stimulating month so far: August 1: A lot of talented writers attended my Getting Your Memoir Off the Ground workshop at Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference, and now I can look forward to reading their memoirs once they’re published! August 2: Sat in on Kevin Davis’ two-hour workshop at the writer’s conference. […]

The memoir-writing workshop I’ll be leading at the 2014 Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference.

A paralyzed teenager is using an exoskeleton to do the World Cup’s ceremonial opening kick , and what a colleague at my part-time job who is paralyzed thinks about that.

Senior citizen? Aged? In their elderhood? Golden Ager? Old? Elderly? Baby-boommers are getting older. Do we need a new term to describe them?

No one at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference handed me a book contract last week, but I still call my trip with Whitney to Seattle an unqualified success. I didn’t expect AWP to be such a huge conference – over 700 exhibitors, and hundreds and hundreds of sessions. The “overflow” hotel Whitney […]