I was recently interviewed by my alma mater, Wesleyan, about my writing career since college.  I was flattered, of course, but mostly humbled.  I’ll let you in on a secret: When taking stock of the last 15 years, my overwhelming feeling was, “What exactly HAVE I done with my life?” When I graduated from college, [...]

There’s nothing like family. Especially during the holidays. For the Family Gatherings Contest with Figment, you all relived some of your craziest, quirkiest, most memorable family get-togethers. Congrats to these ten entries [...]

Oh, how many blogs could I begin with the line ”So I was watching Glee last night and thinking….”  I have spared you many of those blogs, but this one kept niggling me, so here we are: So I was watching Glee the other night, boogeying on the couch to their spunky rendition of Katy [...]

Hi YARN friends! It’s great to “see” you again! Okay…I can’t really see you, of course. I don’t know what you look like, or what you sound like, all I know is that the YARN community brings us together…this is the beauty of the internet. And in the past few months, I’ve developed a new [...]

Dear Teachers,

The prompt for the Figment-YARN Family Gatherings Essay Contest is “Write a nonfiction essay in 2000 words or fewer about a memorable family gathering. It could be a holiday, a wedding, a party, but it MUST include a teen or young adult.” [...]