The buried, alive
MUSINGS | Another month gone and I’m still buried in it. I have been trying to write more like I talk, or rather, more like the way I talked before parenthood and perpetual exhaustion ...
Go deep
MUSINGS | It’s the end of the year as we know it. I’ve been trying to write about depth — a sort of metaphorical piece (you know I love those) about being in the deep, in the dark places. ...
Burnt
PERSONAL ESSAY | In mid-September, I got a sunburn. My first. My skin — a majority of my skin, the largest of all my organs — reddened and tightened, and the inside of my clothing rasped against ...
Reeeeeeee wind
Halloween is the best, isn’t it? News of the day? The site’s being redesigned. Sorta. During the next week or so I’ll be reorganizing like a mofo, resetting the hit counter and ...
How I wrote a novel in three days
WRITING | A version of “How I wrote a novel in three days” was published in the Vancouver Sun, September, 2004. Jump down below the photographed article for a 2018 update and some ...