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…
“Diver Dan” Since I was a toddler, dipping my toes in salty Oyster Bay Harbor, the sea has stirred my imagination. Books I found around my parents’ house, with…
Coleen Murphy is no daydreamer. Yet, this practical-minded biologist possesses the boldest of visions, one she insists is rooted in solid science. It may be technologically possible, she…
Targets individuals, tagging high polluters everywhere Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led…
Princeton University’s Peter and Rosemary Grant, whose legendary explorations on the bleak Galapagos island of Daphne Major over nearly four decades have produced an array of dazzling insights…