Healthy Living: Is Pilates or Yoga a better workout?
Yoga is at 5:30 p.m. and Pilates starts at 6, which means you have to choose between the two classes. But what do you choose? Depends on what you’re looking … Continue reading
Healthy Living: Does Basic Yoga Help With A Good Night’s Sleep?
You’ve set your alarm, read a few pages of the latest bestseller, turned off the lights, closed your eyes and — nothing. You go to the bathroom, make sure you … Continue reading
Healthy Living: Types of Yoga Practice
If you’ve been putting off trying a yoga class because you think you’re out of shape, not flexible enough or not up to trying — and failing — in front of people … Continue reading
Like merging collections of tableware?
Shaun and I had been staking out on ebay a large poster advertising a Marvel comic book crossover known as The Fall of the Mutants. The crossover affected The Uncanny … Continue reading
Latest Pure Slush Anthology, gorge, coming soon
The latest Pure Slush anthology to which I’ve contributed, gorge, will be out this month (a fiction anthology to boot, something different, given the types of stories I’ve published lately). Featuring … Continue reading
Daring to Repair Anthology Now Out
Daring to Repair, an anthology of the different ways we repair — between adults and their parents; parents and their children; in romantic relationships; marriage; divorce; bereavement; and in relationship … Continue reading
By the time you read this, another independent bookstore will be closed, in Huffington Post
A tattered copy of A Wrinkle in Time, a fourth edition of Marjory Sharpe’s The Rescuers, then three copies of the same Disnified version of 101 Dalmatians were the first books in Diskovery to … Continue reading
A taste of real
I have this hybrid of an essay in the forthcoming Pure Slush anthology, real, available soon at several online retailers. The anthology includes 31 writers, and, theoretically, non-fictional takes on, well, just … Continue reading
Heavy Feather Review review: The Elementals, by Francesca Lia Block
Billed as an “adult novel,” The Elementals, by Francesca Lia Block (The Weetzie Batbooks, Guarding the Moon) catapults us into the world of Ariel, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, struggling to … Continue reading
The Writing Life in Hippocampus Magazine: In Progress
Blame what you will: Changing seasons, the start of the school year for my son, an influx of income-generating writing projects, but several projects I impulsively began over the summer … Continue reading