When my son Luke was doing occupational therapy for visual-motor coordination (a weakness we’d uncovered in testing for learning...

I’ve found these to be valuable resources — interesting and helpful to varying degrees. Keep in mind I’m not a medical doctor, educator,...

Ever since we found out about our son's vision, I've been spamming neuropsychologists, educational therapists, literacy experts,...

As essay I posted on Medium (it's similar to the previous one on this site but better, with links). As a new parent, I thought I was on...

Readers and bots, apologies for letting this site grow cold! When I launched the blog I was all excited about writing my first novel. I...

So much free time lately to read books! Almost all of these were winners, IMHO. Here is a previous list, from my very first blog post....

UNDO was first published in 2019 by The Esthetic Apostle, which seems to have disappeared, so here it is. UNDO I didn’t know then about...

I participated in my first Twitter pitch contest yesterday. You pitch your book in 280 characters, add hashtags, shake, throw salt over...

I wrote a novel. It's not done done, but I have a solid fifth or sixth draft. What is done, really? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of...

From 1993 to 1997 I lived in Moscow, taking a break in the middle to go backpacking in South Asia. I was a reporter at The Moscow Tribune...

How did we fill the in-between times before podcasts? I listen to a lot of them, especially pods on writing. I like the ones where hosts...

I read a lot of books last year, some for novel research, some for pleasure. A happy number achieved both. Here's a selection, in random...