Author Archives: BJ

a short piece I wrote about Jake and Gus… Cousins

A quote from the last section of Grant Faulkner’s The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story (168-169): On Revision (and Knitting) When knitting, you might get pretty far along with your sock before you realized you effed up … Continue reading →

Insightful piece in The New Yorker: The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape. See my previous post: unlucky.

We received almost a foot yesterday–March 27th. During graduate school, I wrote a paper (long lost) about John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. I forgot how long the poem is, but maybe I’ll reread it and perhaps write … Continue reading →

I tested positive for COVID-19 on March 5, 2023. According to recent reports, the pandemic began on March 11, 2020. I made it almost three years before contracting the virus. On March 12, I tested positive again, so on day … Continue reading →

I don’t make them. I mean I do, but then I quickly abandon them. I tell everyone I don’t make them so I don’t have to tell them I’ve already quit doing whatever I promised myself I wouldn’t do, or … Continue reading →

Happy to have this post up on So to Speak.

After owning this blog for I don’t know how many years, I’ve finally added a new page, Publications, which includes the following sub-sections:

One month away from returning to teaching, and I’m feeling okay with my accomplishments. I completed my chapbook manuscript. Here’s the synopsis: Unraveling disentangles the strands of the narrator’s life in order to reveal a woman’s capacity to unknot pesky … Continue reading →

You didn’t make it to 60. I’m still in shock that you’re gone, though it’s been 2 months. Poof. Gone from the world. Nothing left. No children, no pets, no written words, very few photos and none recent, no sounds … Continue reading →