I have a new poem on Hevria and I hope you like it. Without overtly intending to, it covers my 3 big themes: the human relationship with th...

From LitBooks' Twitter , here is the last page of Proust's In Search of Lost Time . Kind of reassuring to know that, after writing...

BAD:  This morning, one kid refused to get dressed, just refused. I cajoled. I promised rewards. In the end, none of it worked and I had to ...

The minute you start to think of it as work, it all falls apart. But if you don't think of it as work, you'll never finish anything.

We watched Jaws  tonight (on Netflix Instant--is there someone who keeps a list of amazing movies on Netflix Instant, to weed out the great ...

Best morning subway ride EVER. Last night, I finished (yes! finally! finished! for real, this time!) my screenplay, and I didn't have an...

Judaism is one of those cultural identities that, for most people, is able to be turned on or off. Matt Bar has an awesome song about it (...

So good to be in the swing of a new story. This is a short one, and I'm not usually good with writing short stories -- I tend to either ...