Recent Publications

I’ll be adding this information to the site in a more permanent form soon, along with updating the photography page, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you an update on recent work of mine, including links to publications as available.

Creative Writing

“The Volume of An Unheard Anthem.” Essay, forthcoming in Potomac Review, Issue 51, . . . → Read More: Recent Publications

Professor Amiga

“I saw you over spring break,” my student says sheepishly, as if she’s confessing to something she did wrong.

“Really? Where?”

She hesitantly names the local art-house movie theater. “It was Saturday night?”

“Oh! I was there for Back to the Future,” the classic movie they were showing last weekend. “It was so fun. You should have said hi.”

She . . . → Read More: Professor Amiga

Thank you for your submission

No, thank you for helping me procrastinate.

I have taken on far too much this semester, as I think I have mentioned before, but right now I am on spring break. So far, this break has consisted of a weekend of relaxation (much needed), getting some very important (read: overdue) housework and errands done, the answering of . . . → Read More: Thank you for your submission

Hurry Up and Bite Your Nails

I grew up very familiar with the idea of hurry-up-and-wait. My dad brought the saying forward from his time in the Marines, and it often popped up in his aviation career. My mother, in turn, saw more than her fair share in thirty-plus years as a secretary, a job largely defined by the ability . . . → Read More: Hurry Up and Bite Your Nails

Overboard, Overtake, Overwhelm

I’ve blogged before about my need for structure and a schedule, as well as my problem of going overboard. Since my last post on list-need, I soothed myself by making a 12″ x 18″ calendar of the next four weeks’ classes and assignments as well as the major deadlines I have coming up. Before you think . . . → Read More: Overboard, Overtake, Overwhelm

List-Need

As always, around this time of year, I’m struggling with that feeling of floundering in tasks I might forget or not start in time or already not have time to do or already have forgotten. I have a tendency to over-make lists, or I have in the past. Relying, constantly, on a to do list . . . → Read More: List-Need

 

February 2012
M T W T F S S
« May    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829