Thrilled to see my essay “Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)” in Hippocampus Magazine and Books! Many thanks to Donna Talarico, Writer, Content Strategist, Speaker and Publisher and the editing team!

Please join me this holiday weekend on a trip to the magnificent Northern Cascades with Ana Maria Spagna as our guide. This week’s post is my review of Ana Maria’s magnificent Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going (First published in Entropy on August 5, 2019). When you finish reading, you might just want to pick up a copy…

Published on Lunch Ticket “I’m actually in the best place I’ve been in my whole life. Looking back—and forward—makes me appreciate just where I am. I’ve adopted a “Buddha mind”—a living-in-the-moment-unattached perspective, and it is blissful—much of the time. I am no longer beholden to my children in that day-to-day parenting grind. There was beautiful…

Creative writer, English tutor and FLOBEL advisor Diane Gottlieb is embarking on a rediscovery journey through blogging. Read more at Nectar News

A tongue-in-cheek look in Lunch Ticket at our fascination with, and increasing dependence on, technological advances: “Certain parts of our memory are actually getting shorter. That’s because of what are known as transactive memory sources—we tend not to remember as much information when we rely on another to retrieve it. In other words, why bother…

A post on Lunch Ticket about technology yesterday and this morning we’re looking all the way back to the beginning of winter in this blog from our archives: “I work full time as an English tutor and I’m just finishing my busiest season of work. Starting mid-summer each year, I become swamped with rising seniors…

A post on Lunch Ticket discussing educational access, from an educator’s point-of-view