I work in emergency preparedness. I spend my career preparing for the worst that could happen, and helping communities prepare. I have a smart wonderful precocious child and a husband who is a medical resident. In this context, I get … Continue reading
One of my past job tasks has been statistics. Like any writer, I want people to love my writing and want to see more, to be changed in some way by what I wrote, or at least to have a … Continue reading
Back in the Dark Age, when I was a sophomore in high school, we were assigned to read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It was love at first read. I absolutely fell in love with the characters and … Continue reading
I just finished reading Page after Page by Heather Sellers and she says “Many of the productive writers I know believe they are simultaneously shit and undiscovered geniuses.” It’s what keeps us coming back to the keyboard. Self confidence gets … Continue reading
My dad has Asperger’s Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. I don’t, but I can see the back of the autism train from where I stand. I am somewhere on that spectrum. When I go through the diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s Syndrome, … Continue reading