I’m back from Turkey. The solar eclipse was amaaaaazing, and probably the most staggering cosmic event I ever hope to see. (Anything more staggering would probably involve large asteroids hitting the Earth.) But I’ve seen a lot more than a solar eclipse. I’ve seen the Dervishes whirl. I’ve flown in a balloon over the lunar […]

I’ve recently finished reading one of those novels of adolescence. A pretty good one, too. Reading it set me to thinking about the strategies that we employ to view our own past, and the way we turn the past into narrative. It’s a given in this type of fiction that the narrator is passive. Experience […]

I’m donating two items to an online auction for the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. #1. Be in my book! The winner of the auction will have his or her name used for a character in my next work of fiction. (I do not yet know what that work of fiction will be, it depends entirely on […]

My native language isn’t English. The problem is, I don’t know what language my native language actually is. I was raised in a household where Finnish was spoken, but I never learned more than a few words, so I’m reasonably certain my native language isn’t Finnish. I had French in school and Greek in college, […]