Introduction My assignment for my fiction class the other week was to go to a place that’s really familiar and try to see it with fresh ey...

Introduction This post concerns the silly faucets, or “taps,” that predominate in the U.K. I will explore the possible reasons why such a...

Introduction I fear for the one-off, family run restaurants in this era of Yelp, smartphones , and opentable.com. At the rate things are ...

Introduction This little tale, from my archives, needs little introduction. I wrote it while a student at UC Santa Barbara. I was living i...

Introduction The assignment this week for the fiction writing class I’m taking was to start telling my life story in summary. (“Summary”...

Introduction I’m taking an evening class in fiction writing over at UC Berkeley, my alma mater. Our first session was last Wednesday, an...