I attended a professional development workshop some time ago about culturally responsive teaching. One of the modules was on social capita...

Kevin Killiany's column on August 19, "I Was Just Getting To That" , touched on a sore issue for me: disrespect for writers...

A few days ago Dayton wrote a column about years of writing in collaboration with some other guy named Kevin. As I commented then, I’ve neve...

2016 marks a couple of personal milestones for me. First, the big one: I celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary on March 16th. It certainly ...

The other night I went to dinner and met someone for the first time. I was introduced as “a published author.” This young woman, looking wa...

"We're going iguana hunting." When my wife, Earlene, said this to one of the security people, he was horrified.   "Y...

For the first time ever I attended a writing retreat. This was an entirely new experience and something I think I'll be reflecting on fo...