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Nothing is ever as it seems. (Or….So your daughter has a blog…)

I have a blog. Perhaps you have a blog. It seems these days that everyone has a blog. So that my daughter has a

Life, or something like it.

Being a writer, I understand the need for universiality, that feeling that the movie’s main message somehow applies to the lives of every family

Dating in the new millennium. (Or….Why I Predict the Human Race Will Disappear Within Three Generations)

So. There I was, sitting with my daughter in the restaurant, chatting. I mentioned something about something incidental and, like sometimes happens, the girl

Non-Fiction

Places I’ve Written For Currently Appearing: Eclectica Magazine: “Finding Machu Picchu” – an essay about my life-long friendship with the writer Maude Files Zimmer. BayouLife

When the good people of Cranston, Texas, learn that a hometown boy has been killed in Iraq, they set about mounting a proper welcome

Billy Bradshaw is just a boy of twelve when a well-meaning juvenile court judge sentences him to community service at the Liberty Street Home

Three Days in the Quarter. Bloggin’ Mardi Gras.

Laissez les bon temps rouler! It’s kind of hard to explain Mardi Gras in New Orleans to someone who has never been here during

Kids say the darndest things.

I’m a big believer in decadence. So after spending an entire day largely either naked or in my PJ’s watching my West WIng dvd

It’s the little things, ya know?

I have a friend that, in the past month, has made my week twice–simply by sharing with me a bit of humor she found

An American Christmas Carol.

Christmas has always been a very odd time for me and–by extension–my family. Since we hold no particular religious attachment to the holiday, I’ve