Over on her blog, Taos Toolbox grad Fran Wilde has a perceptive interview with  Taos Toolbox grad (and current Nebula nominee) Saladin Ahmed on writing, food, and workshops. He says very nice things about Taos Toolbox, and also about my cooking. So hey!  Be like Saladin!  Come to the workshop, pay attention, finish your work, […]

My eyes are much better, thanks for asking.  (And thank you, everybody, for the kind inquiries.)  A couple days ago my doc gave me some steroid drops, presumably so that the muscles in my eyes would grow big and strong like Russian wrestlers. At any rate, the light sensitivity and pain have both faded, if […]

So over in the New Republic, of all places, Ian McEwan (“One of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945”) asks what happens when a novelist loses his faith in fiction.  And I found myself nodding in agreement as I read along.. Novels? I don’t know how or where to suspend my disbelief. What imaginary Henry […]

Okay, making this brief . . . Yesterday, buoyed by stories of people having the operation and leaving with perfect vision, I had Lasik to correct my vision problems. Let’s just say it didn’t go as well as I could have hoped. I have become so sensitive to light that, pretty much, I can’t see. […]