Chasing Light Blog

Greetings! I'd be so pleased if you'd follow this link to my first newsletter post on Substack, "Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning," a...

I love a good thunderstorm. I usually go outside and watch it come in, like I did yesterday here in Boone. Thunderstorms in the South...

I write to you from a hotel room in beautiful downtown Oklahoma City, bound for North Carolina. After taking Roadcinante off the market...

Writing is an entirely solitary effort. At the same time, it is also a communal event. Because we writers find out along the way that we...

The writing life is such that one can go through a long, dry spell with no publication, and then have a couple of things to share in...

First of all, I'm pleased to share with you my Tiny Love Story that appears today in the New York Times. (Scroll down to "A Windy...

Thinking about prayer lately has drawn me into thinking about liminal spaces. Liminal space is defined as a boundary or a threshold. I...

Honestly, y'all, it took everything I had to finish my Chasing Light memoir, and I'm so danged proud of this book. I feel like I am...

Greetings, Salutations, Wildly Gesticulating Hands! In fact, two moves are currently in slow-motion process. The first: I'll be leaving...

Oof. Last Thursday (nine days ago) my sweet Boxer, Beasley Ralph, had a stroke and then a seizure. I thought he was a goner, but folks at...

My Chasing Light memoir is finished and out on agent submission. We shall see what comes of that. I'd be grateful if you'd send some good...

Honestly, you just never know. That is to say, things can happen without warning. I'm currently back in North Carolina, in these...

Hi, all - here's my podcast interview with Ken Kemp, which really turned out to be more like a long chat with a newfound pal, clinking...

Well, I returned from North Carolina this past Tuesday afternoon, rolling into Albuquerque in Roadcinante, my daughter and son-in-law...

I write to you from a comfy hotel room in Jackson, Tennessee. That's not how it was supposed to go. I got it in my head to car camp the...