: About Me

Director of the Writing Center at The Ohio State University-Mansfield.

My passion is ...

Coccia House Pizza

I know too much about ...

procrastination

My parents always told me ...

as little as possible.

My childhood ambition ...

fitting in somewhere

My favorite memory ...

is, unfortunately, not mine

Why I write ...

I can't draw

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

Helium/Wire In The Blood/Van Morrison Astral Weeks

My first job ...

picking up sticks

My best moment ...

I said, "Is that you, Pa?" Had to be there.

My inspiration ...

living

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Understanding relationships

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The phone rang. Lori, loaded down with briefcase, laptop case, and purse, was wrestling her way through the back doors. The first door was relatively easy to negotiate, but the screen door had been installed backwards and the steps were too narrow, making the railing impossibly close to the opening door. It was an awkward enough endeavor to squeeze through empty handed, but became a Houdiniesque exercise in agility when so encumbered. Lori knew that some day they would get around to correcting the door problem, that it would not require much effort, and they would afterward wonder what had...

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