In my pre-teen Xanadu era, my love for music was unfettered and expansive. I sang all the time, any song I wanted, as loud as I wanted, whenever I wanted. Then something changed.
Driving Solo
Knives Out: A Love Story With Wicked Edges
It’s scary sometimes how you can be going along in your life thinking you’ve got everything all sewn up, and suddenly you don’t. I hit my sixties and felt I’d finally gotten […]
Following the Green Trail, or Adventures in Cannabis Tourism
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Greg and I took a drive along I-68 toward Cumberland, Maryland. The weather was perfect, high winds blowing puffy clouds across a perfectly blue sky. The state […]
No, Jesus Was not a Zombie, and other Easter Musings
I love these questions. I love knowing that the kids are really thinking about their faith, about how it fits into the real and fictional parts of the world around them
For Women’s History Month: A Short Interview with Sean Connery as Agent 007
Because this is Women’s History Month, the world’s sexiest misogynist, Sean Connery, is interrogated by The Gloria Sirens and can answer only with words he uttered as James Bond. The Gloria Sirens […]
Happy Gwendolyn Soper Day
This is Women’s History Month, which I confused with International Women’s Day, which I missed. But today should be Gwendolyn Soper Day, and as far as I’m concerned, it is. I am […]
Five Years Later, God’s Still Winking
Today, as this fifth-year-anniversary post publishes and I work, every day, to let go of my need for control over everything and follow God’s lead, I see Him sending me everything from millisecond twitches to slow-motion stage winks.
Potatoes for the People, Free Palestine
I’m surprised when people ask the internet questions like: when does a potato go bad? I’m surprised because it seems like the kind of knowledge any adult American should possess. We’ve all […]
The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Writer
If you’re a writer, it may be that no single thing came to mind when you read “The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Writer,” because the truth is, we need […]
A Brief History of Associated Writing Programs Conferences
2002: New Orleans My first AWP was a road trip with other cream city review editors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Creative Writing Program. We rented an entire house in New Orleans […]
The Gloria Sirens 