The dot-matrix revolution

I’d bet you didn’t know there was a dot-matrix revolution! I wrote this article for UC Davis Magazine, early in 2012. Volume 29 · Number 3 · Spring 2012 “The dot-matrix revolution” Could a poet ever compose on a computer? A graduate of the creative writing program recalls the days when her early PC seemed The dot-matrix revolution

Memory Loss

No one gets out of this life without loss. A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas, is packed with brutal observations, mostly about loss, made palatable by moments of pure comic relief. Thomas tells the story of her life before and after her husband, Rich, suffers from traumatic brain injury after being hit by a Memory Loss

Scared?

According to Ralph Keyes, if you aren’t scared to write, if you aren’t facing demons when you face the blank page (and some call this writer’s block), then you may be: kidding yourself writing banal, inane, trivial stuff not writing at all E.B. White worried over every word. Margaret Atwood said that you need a Scared?