Life is irony, isn’t it? Explaining My Beautiful Wife’s parental lineage requires a PowerPoint, some flowcharts, and six credit hours at the local community college. The takeaway is that her state-hopping, oft-moving parental unit father has finally retired nearby. Almost simultaneously, the World’s Greatest Mother-in-Law, the one who has always lived within walking distance of […]

Six years ago I had a perfectly serviceable secret social media identity. Killing off  that imaginary person was way harder than I expected. Much harder. I can’t even remember why I started with the pseudonym in the first place. I think I was speaking truth to power to agents, back when agents blogged. It was […]

Blog Rule #1: Have something to say. There was a time when I could sit down at my desk five days-a-week and reflexively cough out a column before my coffee required a warm-up. Lately, I’m clenched; afraid that if I start speaking truth to power, I’ll end up screaming like my character Neal from Selfie. […]

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