Category: Nonfiction

There I was, minding my own business in my room at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, when the place started to shake. It was a Sunday, right around 5 p.m. The lamp at the desk where I was working rattled, and I felt the building sway a bit. I’d been in a minor earthquake in Chicago back… Continue reading 9/9/01

“There are three categories of people in the Tidewater,” a New York-born and bred woman told me in 2000 when I came to Virginia to speak at a writers’ conference. “There are the

I grew up in South Dakota, and spent the greatest part of my adult life in the Chicago area. You know, flat places. Places where you prepare for blizzards by going to the store and

I’ve lost significant weight twice in my life, once through a weight-loss program and once through a low-carb diet. In both cases, I  put most of the pounds back on, mainly because I