Tag: Poetry

Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts

A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…

December 12, 2025
A Birthday Launch And a Book Finally Born

Today, something delightful happened: I celebrated a birthday… and delivered a book. Not the kind of delivery that takes nine months, but certainly the kind that grows in its own mysterious timeline—draft by draft, sketch by sketch, whisper by whisper—until one morning you wake up and realize the thing you’ve been nurturing has finally decided…

December 8, 2025

Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts