And Then This Happened…..

It has been a pretty incredible summer for me for a lot of reasons, the latest being that on Wednesday, Paste Magazine announced me as the winner of their That Summer writing contest. The contest was held in conjunction with Biographile’s That Summer series which featured short, non-fiction stories by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Jo-Jo…

See a penny, pick it up

The death talk started around Halloween.  Surrounded by walking, talking skeletons and goblins and ghouls apparently aroused some dormant curiosity in my children, particularly the younger one.  So we’ve had a lot of conversations recently about bodies and what happens when you die, a lot of conversations about where heaven is (Is it up?), how…