I have Simpsonized myself. I have also Simpsonized Kathy, an act for which I may be forgiven some time in the next decade. For anyone wishing to discover their Simpsons avatar, you don’t need to register, you just click on “new character” and your cartoonization may begin.

Two teachers, one special lecturer, seventeen participants, two weeks, one mountain lodge. Thirty-four manuscripts, eight exercises, 1,800,000 ponderosa pines, one very active family of ground squirrels, and one hot tub. I plan to have caught up on my sleep by 2012. Connie was wonderful to work with, a complete joy. The participants were hard-working, generous […]

In the last month I’ve delivered one novel and started another. I have done what, in former times, would have constituted the entirety of my job: writing a piece of fiction and selling it to a publisher. What happened to it afterward was sort of up to them.Without going into the sad details, let’s just […]

Continued from the posts “Me O My O” and “Chef Francoise, Part II” Baron le Vison had been a legendary character long before I met him. I kept hearing stories about him, some from the Baron himself, some from others. Consider these to be Unconfirmed Rumors. He is, according to one account, a genuine French […]