
Why I’m Learning Grammar: Grammar Foundations Class Review
My coaching student scoffed. “Why are you learning grammar?” A part of me was with her, scoffing at grammar that meant memorizing latinate
My coaching student scoffed. “Why are you learning grammar?” A part of me was with her, scoffing at grammar that meant memorizing latinate
I’m looking up Narratively’s instructions on how to pitch, and I see this from their editor, Lilly Dancyger: “In case you’re wondering,
When I decided to start a blog as a follow-up to my book Welcome to the Writer’s Life, I knew I needed
In 2018, I went to six conferences, which is, according to my bank account, too many conferences. Today I have a new
My favorite music genre being Sad Guy With A Guitar And a Story To Tell, my favorite band is naturally Bon Iver.
I don’t know why it took me so long to realize I could buy things for my home that I’d only used
Every month, I have a dinner party where we talk about the most forbidden of fruits as far as conversation topics go:
I bartered with another business owner to help her design her systems, and we were deciding which electronic signing service to go
On the latest episode of my podcast, I get to talk with my coaching student, Bria, about how she saved up to
I am feeling feelings about Kristen Arnett’s book, Mostly Dead Things, an absolutely fabulous and hilarious novel set in Florida. Psst: This
As we walked down the beach one day, my mom and I saw two anchored boats cracking against each other in the
I just finished Tara Conklin’s book The Last Romantics on a plane, and I wanted to call, “Attention: People in the emergency
Like Will Ferrell or Amy Sedaris, it seemed like John Hodgman was creating a new kind of humor. We had no idea
One thing I know about the writing life is that you get better at the thing by doing it. I started out
I’m doing Liz Frugalwoods’ Uber-frugal challenge this month, and I don’t like it. I mean, I like her and her challenge, but
It’s spending season. The sun shines upon Seattlites at University Village as I run to the Amazon book store, because it’s the
Is there anyone classier, smarter, and more of a person I might be tempted to put a photo of on my mantel
Before my trip to South America, I looked for places he’d been. I had 24 hours in Cali in Colombia, and he’d
“In my mind, a beach read is something that’s “unputdownable,” whatever that means to you,” says Susan Kehoe, managing partner of Browseabout
Zadie Smith is kind of everything you ever want to be. I’m in love with this short story I heard her read
As you know, Amy Schumer is ridiculous. I consider her my long-lost third sister. Not only does she have her book, The
I’ve only once fallen in love with a piece of land, and I’ve been trying to write about it for a decade.
Roxane Gay was sitting outside Hugo House one night when I went to a reading. My friend Jessica and I chatted with
George Saunders is an uber-favorite: kind, brilliant, hard-working. I’ve never met anyone who said a bad word about him, and he was