Writing a book is hard. Especially if writing isn't your jam. But if you need help getting started or seeing the strengths and flaws in your existing manuscript, a capable (and gentle and encouraging) editor can help. A steady stream of ...
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By chance, I saw an interview with John Mellencamp recently, in which he recounted advice he'd been given years ago by folk legend Pete Seeger: Keep it small. But keep it going. Amen to that. Small is sustainable. It's humane. Small is being ...
I hadn't even realized it, the fact that I've been editor of Edible Ohio Valley magazine for five years now. But my lovely colleagues did, and they surprised me with the most amazing and welcome gift: a set of Russel Wright ...
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing; but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed ...
Yesterday was my Launch Day. On May 2, 2011, I sat down at my laptop computer on my kitchen counter, windows open, coffee at hand, Peroni (that's our dog ... though a beer certainly would have been appropriate) at my ...
Today is the last day of March. It's cold, gray, rainy. Has been all week. (Hell, all month!) It's a Friday, I'm a little fried and grouchy and just so. over. this. weather. Then this shows up in my inbox, from ...
In 2015, we began publishing Last Word in Edible Ohio Valley magazine, the very back editorial page of the magazine featuring a Q&A with notable Ohio Valley people. It's one of my favorite elements of each issue, and one of ...
Rob and I this summer spent 10 days in Italy. Ten glorious days. We started in Lucca, a charming town in Tuscany, then spent a full week in Bologna, the spiritual center of Italian food and the capital of its ...
In college, I took a 200-level English class on American literature and popular culture that focused on the intersection of music and literature. We studied Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s rock-and-roll play “Cowboy Mouth.” I remember writing a term paper ...