I am a writer and an editor. For life-blood money, I am a medical manuscript editor, editing articles for medical journals, and for pleasure and less money, I am also an editor of other writers' stories. I founded and managed an online literary journal about memoir, called Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, which is no longer publishing; I previously edited the print journal, Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir. I lived in NYC for many years, and on the Bowery from 1978 to 1991. Now I live in Maine.
Twenty New York blocks gets you a mile. Back in “our time,” a motley crew of urban youth crossed the Manhattan landscape with that formula in our heads. We understood distance. We got time. We lived the algebraic formula of Time x Speed = Distance. If we started peddling our bikes at the top of the […]
I was eleven when I got my first paper route. You had to be thirteen. “If the route manager approves it, I’ll give it to you,” Freddy Bullwinkle said. Kids called him Bullwinkle because he had big ears. A few days later it was mine. The Long Island Star Journal. “Remember, John, the most […]
My dad reached inside the closet for his new jacket, single breasted, two button, and straight off the rack. It was pencil gray with flecks of black in it and may have had those professorial looking patches on the sleeves, but I’m not sure. He didn’t care much about clothes and the jacket was nothing […]
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