My son and I drove to Manhasset, a suburban town not known for diversity, where the nearest art cinema is improbably located. Several years ago, while driving home from Manhasset, after a [...]

In July, I spent six days at “Literary Feminist Woodstock 2.0 with Exponents”, otherwise known as the International Women Writer’s Guild annual conference at Muhlenberg College. [...]

I see myself as I was, as I am, and as I may be My husband and I have a game we play at the town pool. It’s based on the “Idiot Paparazzi” segment of the comedian Spike [...]

It’s been my good fortune to spend a week studying poetry with the incredible Marge Piercy and an exceptional group of poets from across the United States and Canada. If one were to try and [...]

I’m tossing these non-pussy hats into the air to honor the idealistic spirit of Mary Richards and her fictional Minneapolis colleagues as well as those smaller, local media markets where [...]