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Happy 4th of July!
I found this excellent explanation of my thoughts and feelings and wanted to share it with you as we celebrate our nation’s birthday this year …and as I dread losing so much of what actually makes America great (um, due process, anyone? Rule of law? Separation of powers? Welcoming both the refugees and the research […]
Um, I’m over here, if you’re looking for me!
I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there’s a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native. Or you could just subscribe […]
LA Times Festival of Books, April 21-22 • a pivotal moment for me
I have hosted a Wordsmith Writing Coaches booth at the LA Times Festival of Books—affectionately called “Latfob” or just “the Fob” by the writing community here in LA—every year since 2014. Every year that it was held, anyway. When the FoB was canceled at the last minute in 2020, Russell Nohelty and I created an […]

