Creative Writing | Marginalia

It’s so much easier to answer, “I teach,” when someone asks what I do for a living than to say I’m a writer, but at the core of everyt..

On New Year’s Day, I was walking around my neighborhood. There was still a blanket of snow, but it wasn’t miserably cold, because it w..

After the craziest flight ever, my trip back home to San Diego ended up being wonderful. I relaxed in the warm 60 degree weather, had ..

Los Angeles, city of the stars and wannabe-stars. It’s also a city with its own cultural heritage and fun adventures. I’m currently ou..

This break started off with a BANG! I read at the Dollhouse with Brian Russel, Kathleen Rooney, and Glenn Shaheen. It was the first ti..

Random Family just arrived today in the mail, just in time for Winter Break and for my four-and-a-half-hour flight home to San Diego.
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The semester is over. The lights are up at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Santas are all around Chicago. Salvation Army bell-ringers are asking..

The semester is over, and for some reason this felt like the longest EVER. Not that it was bad; in fact, it was quite good. I finished..

I just took a look at my planner, sifted through syllabi, and realized: THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH TIME. The end of the semester is here, a..