Essays & Short Stories

Why the Hippies are Topical: How Writing About a Historical Time Can Make a Writer Ask— Can We Reall...

Why do you need research if you are creating a made-up story world?

My mother Ruth was sixty-nine when Alzheimer’s began its leisurely, vicious, search-and-destroy rans...

The other night I settled down to watch a courtroom drama. In the story, defense attorneys in a gun ...

In Jabiru, just before the wet season made tempers rise, there were complaints.

Each cup of water in the ocean contains molecules that once made up Cleopatra.

Little Women turned me into a writer. I identified with Meg but longed to be Jo.

Years ago, in my heady youth, I reconnected with a guy I’d worked with on the student newspaper. We ...

In late 2019 and early 2020, a large part of Australia suffered catastrophic fires in grassland, woo...

The mid-century, before the baby boomers became teenagers and horrified their parents was, it is sai...

In my mid-century memoir, Cold War in a Hot Kitchen, I relate that when my mother went back to ...