Madeline and I attended a Writer’s Workshop in Minneapolis this weekend and it was probably the most momentous, exhausting, oddly wonderful two days we will spend in quite some time. We’re back home now, settled back into the routine of …

Pitching Agents: Throat Punches and Better Endings, Part 1 Read more »

Last week, after I wrote a post that referred to my own elbow-throwing, competitive propensities, a woman who skates by the name of Molotov approached me on my Facebook Page, Running from Hell with El, to see if I was …

Skating with Molotov: Portland Renegade Roller Derby Read more »

Good morning my friends.   I hope you will bear with me and listen for a minute or two.  A joke about seizures caught my eye this morning, and it touched a sensitive place inside me.  I have a seizure disorder. …

Seizures are No Joke Read more »