
Maybe you’ve heard some of the hype for Richard Linklater’s
latest film, Boyhood. Critics are unanimous
in their praise; several news sources are already predicting a Best Picture
Oscar for next year. I’m a fervent...

Tomorrow our family will commemorate the wonderful moment we doubled from three to six members, and we'll celebrate the three unique souls we've been getting to know for twelve years. This is a short piece I wrote...

I haven’t been blogging very much lately. There was, of
course, the launch of a certain novel to get through, along with the usual
end-of-the-school-year craziness and a little trip to run through Utah. Yet despite...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka