: About Me

I went to graduate school in Berkeley, where I learned the importance of reading the whole book and perfected my coffee-house look. If anyone even thinks the word "hermeneutic" within 1000 yards of me, I cannot be accountable for my actions. But Berkeley left me with one indelible message: English majors read and talk about it. Writers just shut-up and write.

I devoted my "real," grown-up life to recovering the writing skill and beginnings of style the cloistered scholars had beaten out of me. Twenty years in print seems like a pretty good run, yet I wept bitterly when my beloved daily news gig went belly-up. Unless you have seen and felt it, you cannot know the thrill and joy of those behemoth presses turning, delivering your stuff to your world.

Now, like lots of freelancers compelled to pay bills while they perfect their art and craft, I produce about 10000 words of web content every day, earn about a penny a word, and identify very strongly with Charles Dickens. I never have felt happier.

I know I do not stand single in my feeling: I must keep writing as surely as I must keep breathing. Stop writing, the whole system stops. Done. Eventually, I hope to become sorta good at it. In the meantime, I'll keep practicing with all my heart and all my soul for all of every day.

My passion is ...

everything aquatic. If it's wet, I'm all over it.

I know too much about ...

construction. I still belong to the Carpenters' Union.

My parents always told me ...

let the boys win, honey. Let the boys win.

My childhood ambition ...

to swim 100meters butterfly in the Olympics

My favorite memory ...

the junior prom-innocent bliss

Why I write ...

It sets us apart from the beasts and most of the bois.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Executioner's Song

My first job ...

waitress, of course

My best moment ...

yet to come

My inspiration ...

my daughter: absolutely my heroine

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