Article In The New York Times
I’m so happy to have my first piece in The New York Times. I retraced Eugene O’Neill’s footsteps around San Francisco, where he raced to complete his best works before he lost his ability to write. It ran in the…
Greece Trip 2018
This October, we went to Greece! It was a sensational trip. (Good word, sensational.) Here are pictures. If you want more, Follow Me On Instagram. We visited the Acropolis in Athens: And saw where the Oracle of Delphi used to…
Everywhere We Went In Our Camper Van
Oh hello. It has been awhile. Well, we’ve been busy. For one thing, we’ve been driving around the country in our camper van. Here are the places we went: Yosemite Bryce Canyon Dinosaur National Monument in Utah The Rocky Mountains…
Essay in Ploughshares: Student Debt and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I wrote an essay for Ploughshares on Student Debt and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the novel written by Betty Smith. It looks at the difficulty of paying for school, both now, and in Smith’s time. Things have changed, but…
Article in Longreads: Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Writer
I wrote an article for Longreads. Check out Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Writer. One day in 1913, a housewife named Pearl Curran sat down with her friend Emily Grant Hutchings at a Ouija board. Curran’s…
We Bought A Camper Van
Kyle’s dream has come true. We bought a camper van. It’s a 1996 Roadtrek Popular 170. Here’s the inside:
Essay In The Washington Post
I wrote an essay for The Washington Post! It’s about how becoming a mother has made me a better writer. A sample: Throughout my pregnancy, I weathered comments about how difficult writing would soon become, all while obsessing about how…
Learn To Write From The Movies: Kill Your Darlings
I have a new Learn To Write From The Movies up at Barrelhouse. It’s about Kill Your Darlings, a movie about Allen Ginsberg starring Daniel Radcliffe. A sample: Lesson 4: Do Weird 1940s Drugs. Naturally, Burroughs suggests they do drugs.…
Cabin In Mt Tamalpais
A couple of weeks, friends invited us to spend the night in a cabin in Mt Tamalpais. Can you believe the view off the balcony? We had a great time: lots of hiking, board games, listening to people playing music,…
Poetry Foundation: Bohemian Tragedy
I wrote an essay for the Poetry Foundation on the poet George Sterling and the Carmel artist colony. It’s a crazy story about artistic utopia, California Bohemians, scandals, affairs, and a suicide pact. Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and HL Mencken…