Those of us at Coffee+Crumbs moved our monthly newsletter to Substack for many reasons, one of them being our resistance to the Devil that is the social media algorithm, and the havoc it’s reeking on our writing souls. Another reason has to do with making the decision to not be a part of cultivating and endorsing the short attention span…. View Post

My friend and colleague Megan Willome writes a delightful series on Substack called Poetry For Life, where, each week she presents a poem, walks us through that poem, and offers us exercises to reflect and write if we wish to. A couple of weeks ago, she wrote about Sally Fisher’s, “Here in the Psalm,” a take on Psalm 23 (a… View Post

First, a huge thank you to my friend and writing colleague Ashlee Gadd who interviewed me for her “Real Moms Creating In The Margins” series. I am thrilled to be a part of this, but more than that, I am thrilled to be a part of the work she is doing. She shares part of the note I wrote to… View Post

Some Saturday in late September, I was determined to finish Kristin Lavrandatter. I had about 200 pages left – an amount that doesn’t seem like much given that the book is 1,124 pages – and I would crank them out in 48 hours, along with a few essays if it was the last thing I did. It was barely the… View Post

My rumination over and response to some of the concepts explored in “The End of High-School English,” is live on TS Poetry Press today. You’ll read about my fascination with email, a sort of prank my friend Alison and I pulled in college so that we could check said email, and you’ll read about the saddest and most beautiful book… View Post