A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening..

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alter….

With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices….

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monot….

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet..

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence..

...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, on….

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . ….

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other ….

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you..