Category Archives: writing

RIP, Uppercase AL

Al Levenson signed his name AL, which served double duty as his name and his initials. Thanks to the strange way Facebook allows us to learn about our friends through people we don’t know, I found out that AL passed away a few days ago. Because he was one of the most interesting people I’veContinue Reading

Answering the four questions

No, it isn’t Passover again. It’s a Blog Hop–sort of a tag team relay in the world of blogging. My fellow blogger and friend Francie Low answered the four questions, and then tossed the baton to me. I’ll attempt to answer the questions here, and then pass the honor along to three other bloggers I’dContinue Reading

Let us now praise headstrong women

I first met Erin Lindsay McCabe at Saint Mary’s College of California. We were both in the MFA writing program; she was in the fiction group, and I was in creative nonfiction. Because we were in different disciplines, and she was in her second year when I came into the program, our paths didn’t crossContinue Reading