Hello folks!

I am ecstatic and pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Full Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center. This rocks! The fellowship includes a writing studio, room, board, and meals, all of which are covered for one-month in the quaint, laid-back town of Johnson Vermont. I love Johnson and am beyond thrilled and honored to receive this award. The fellowships are granted based on the quality and strength of the applicant's manuscript. Well, that means SOMEONE likes my stuff--a wh...
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These days, it seems that all I find are more and more rejections, in my virtual and actual mailboxes alike. 
 
Yet another one came yesterday, this time from Gulf Coast. Man. OK. I am braving myself, tensing up those muscles as my ego takes yet another blow. 

I cast the I-Ching. Thus far, it has been my most powerful prophecy. Never once has this book misled me. It gave me the hexagram DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING. 

"That...
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So, it has been awhile since I have posted. Sorry for the delinquent lapse in time, folks. Summer is here with a vengeance--most days are in the 80's and 90's. Provincetown is jam-packed with tourists and lined with drag queens. There are shows galore, bars galore, and beaches galore. 

Between all that going on, I recently took a class at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center with Robin Becker. The Work Center was kind enough to offer me a Cape Resident tuition scholarship, which made attenda...
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Hello, Gentle Readers! 

I wanted to make a fabulous announcement. On Thursdays, starting from next week, April 1st, and every Thursday from here on out, I am going to be co-hosting an Arts Show on Provincetown's own WOMR 92.1 FM with friend, comrade, and colleague, Jeannette Angell. Jeannette is a great friend, an even better writer. She is the author of Callgirl, Madam, Wings, Legende, and several other short stories, plays, and novels, too numerous to count. Jeannette and I shall be discussi...
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So, I am going to stop griping and just really get in there and roll around in that beauty. Did you know, incidentally, they've done clinical studies at Harvard that prove that your brain cannot tell the difference between real and "fake" happiness? In other words, even if you do not have an external, concrete impetus for happiness, you can still realign your brains thought patterns with feelings of actual happiness? Cool stuff. And so, here I go...

I awoke at 4:30 AM and to hitch a ride to Lo...
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Terrific news, Gentle Readers.

My chapbook manuscript, "Trailer Park Heart" was chosen as runner up by renowned memoirist, novelist, and poet, Marge Piercy for the 2010 Providence Athenaeum Philbrick Poetry Project Award. Check out the formal announcement on their website. 

Naturally, I am pretty stoked. It is the first--and hopefully not the last--major recognition I have received in my writing career. All the same, I hope this shining accolade is akin to that of a chandelier at the end of a l...
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Greetings, Gentle Readers,

I just got back from Costa Rica. I am still spinning from the magic of it, not to mention overwhelmed by the minutiae that has been waiting, ie, dealing with a lost cell phone, bills, laundry--loads and loads of dirty laundry, and, of course, being tired and strung-out from forty-eight hours of straight traveling from the Pacific Coast back to San Jose. 

I cannot express how incredible my journey was. That said, when I am in a better place mentally, I certainly shall ...
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So, I am about to say goodbye to my winter sublet lent to me by a generous friend. Right now, the tide is out. The sun has not yet set, but it will soon. Pretty soon, another friend will come over to watch the sun sink into the ocean. My last sunset in this beautiful place. At least, for a while. 

And pretty soon here, I shall be leaving for Costa Rica. I can hardly wait. I can hardly, moreover, believe it is happening. There is always something ecstatic and mystical about travel; it tends to ...
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So, I hope everyone, both on the world's edge and off are enjoying the mighty lumps of snow. I have not posted in a little while, so I wanted to keep everyone abreast of my life, and hopefully inspire you to fill me in on yours. First off: Happy Holidays, especially if you are really, truly, happy to be spending this holiday with family and friends. And if you aren't? Happy Holidays to you, especially also. Find a man. Find a woman. Find someone whose company you enjoy, who can emphasize how ...
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