In the continuing saga of my attempts to learn how to write a critical paper of the type required by Goddards’ MFA program in creative writing, I went to the

I used to think of myself as a rather intelligent person. Then I encountered the “critical writing” papers required in graduate school. I feel the same way I did when

Today’s the day! All you fictioneers get on it. If you haven’t signed up for National Novel Writing Month, it’s not too late. (Sign up at http://www.NaNoWriMo.org) You too can

What Columbus coffeehouse serves a breakfast sandwich named after a deceased barrista (the McRoy – he wasn’t dead when they named it)? What Columbus coffeehouse is owned by a guitarist

In an exquisite New York Times travel piece about D.H. Lawrence’s love affair with northern New Mexico, Henry Shukman writes: THERE’S something about the first glimpse of the Taos Mesa

How many times do I have to be reminded? I spent a wonderful Saturday with 15 women writers. It didn’t matter that they were “students” who had signed up for

I just finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie. I didn’t want to. She made me. She sort of bribed me by telling me that, despite the lame metaphors, the sickly dialogue,

I was sitting in Stauf’s Coffee Roasters in Grandview when I read the most recent letter from my Goddard MFA Advisor Aimee Liu. I squealed so loudly that the man