Personal Essay

Feb 14, 2020

Bodies, Watchers, and Magic Doors: A February update

I’m sitting on a bus, my nose pressed to the window. Outside, Ontario morphs into Quebec. It has been about… Read more
Aug 26, 2019

Summer 2019 – a retrospective

I’ve been thinking about time travel a lot lately. Not really because there’s any point I’d like to go back… Read more
Sep 26, 2018

Theory of Adaptation in Review

Note: Over the next two months I will be writing a series of very short reviews of both critical work… Read more
Aug 24, 2018

I’m Back! Upcoming Book announcement: What We See in the Smoke

Hello, world. Is this thing on? It has been almost an entire year since I last wrote a single blog… Read more
Nov 25, 2016

The Ink-Stained-Wretch

It’s hard to say where the expression Ink-Stained-Wretch originates. Though I have found almost no reliable sources, at least one… Read more
Jan 13, 2016

Writing in the Digital Age

The wastepaper basket is a writer’s best friend. – Isaac Bashevis Singer These words were true when the Nobel Prize… Read more
Nov 28, 2015

Nanowrimo, or how I learned to stop word-counting and love the bomb

Hello writers and readers. As this is written, it is the end of November. While most people know November as… Read more