You have to trust the person you were when you wrote it because you’re actually not that person anymore.—Greta Gerwig     In honor of last week’s Oscar nominations, here are my favorite movies from this past year. NOT Honorable Mention: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri—In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have… Continue reading Favorite Movies of 2017

  A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.—Maya Angelou     On October 1st 2016, I walked down Mass Ave next to the Central Square T stop and found a smiley, old man sitting on a bench, singing I Feel Good by James Brown. He gently… Continue reading Singing My Own Song

In August 2014, on a rainy afternoon when I was living in Denver, I walked—aimlessly— down the 16th Street Mall, discovered the famous Tattered Cover Bookstore, and found what has become my all-time favorite book about writing: several short sentences about writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a book with a Ron Swansonian title, voice, and overall disdain for… Continue reading Everything You Notice