From the Koru Magazine blog, where I explain what drove me to write my newly published essay: “In Groves of Green, I describe what happened to me, almost from…
So begins my essay, “Son of Memory,” in the Fall Equinox issue of Mused Literary Magazine issued today about “eidetic” or photographic memory — a specific type of memory some…
I am beyond excited to say that an excerpt from my novel, “Mad Hatters and Glow Girls,” has been published in the Summer 2016 issue of The Copperfield Review. A Journal…
First we had the idea. Then, like Neo in “The Matrix,” we took a leap of faith. We called our friends. We charmed and cajoled them. We bribed…
My short story, “El Balo,” will appear in print in the May/June 2017 edition of Down in the Dirt magazine (v143, released 6/1/17) and can be accessed online…
SUMMER REVEAL: OBESITY AND BODY IMAGE I sliced through the water of my suburban New Jersey condo complex’s crystalline lap pool this weekend. I sucked the sticky air.…
Getting into the Flow The sages, that is, writing colleagues such as Robin Gaby Fisher, Brad Parks, and Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, say you must write 1,000 words a day to free…
My Ireland-born, paternal grandmother, Evelyn Mae Dwyer MacPherson, with my father, John “Bud” MacPherson. Evelyn died of pneumonia two years after this photo was taken. (New York, New…
(VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHORE) The bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is a neon green world teeming with life. About 5 inches from my nose, a…
I am honored to report that my essay appears in Scarlet Magazine, a publication created by and for Rutgers University Newark students. I recently wrote a piece for Medium.com on…