Matters of the Heart
“The Voyage” ends with Jon and José seated in the lobby of the border post, José in his orange, oversized sunglasses – “stunner shades” – awaiting their sentence for carrying a firearm across the Canadian Border.
A Writing Weekend in the Woods
Writers have a weakness for trivial details. It’s how you carry out the old show, don’t tell dictum. Off the cuff I can’t differentiate an oak from an ash, but with some research I can show you the whole forest.
Nothing Trumps the Sentence
For those of us who consider ourselves writers, there’s nothing more elementary or atomic to what we do than the sentence. Of course a sentence can be broken into words, but we don’t…





