Hanging out with Jess Dang, director of the wonderful new film "Surrender", with themes of intergenerational trauma, religious trauma, &...

NEW Book Highlight (which as SO MANY PARALLELS with Killing Justice)... Free by Amanda Knox: Amanda Knox spent nearly 4 years in prison...

hanging out with Amanda Knox, exoneree and author of the memoir Free: My Search for Meaning, which has countless parallels with my memoir...

Hanging out with Jean Guerrero, after she autographed a copy of her powerful memoir "Crux" for me, after appearing on a Memoir panel...

My good friend & fellow author Jean Guerrero , was hoping her investigative biography of Stephen Miller would cease to be relevant. But...

Soul is the topic for next week's Aim4theHeArt Heart Sessions urban poetry workshop. Hope you can join us!

I N K From                                                         To Brutalized Boy                                          ...

Hanging out with Maren Elardo, writer/director of the wonderful short film Ikigai, which deals with the themes of immigrant trauma,...

E A S T E R From                                                         To Obedient Orphan                                      ...

A S S O C I A T I O N FROM                                                       TO Gambled on the Greedy                            ...

The Pitt is a raw, powerful new show featuring a central character, played by Noah Wyle, who, like me in Killing Justice, has major...

Will Trent is my favorite TV show, because I, like Will Trent, was abandoned at birth and was a foster kid. This show is about a...

D A N GE R From To Unseen & Unheard                                   Cautious around Chaos Numbed Neediness...

Thanks so much to the 60+ new subscribers from last week's AWP25 Bookfair&Writers Conference! (including Chloe Rodriguez, pictured...

hanging out with my dear friend , the singer/songwriter Raye Zaragoza, who I'm hoping will contribute some songs to the Killing Justice...

hanging out with Chloe Rodriguez, my new adoptee friend who bought my book this past Saturday, 3/29, at this week's AWP BookFair ...

TODAY'S THE LAST DAY FOR AWP25 WRITERS CONFERENCE & BOOKFAIR, & IT'S JUST $25 TO ATTEND FOR THE ENTIRE DAY OF WRITERS CONFERENCE PANELS &...

hanging out with  Jackson Wiggins  , the 2nd person to buy my book during this week's AWP Conference

hanging out with Vivian Angeles, the 1st person to buy my book on the 1st day of the AWP Bookfair Thursday

hanging out with Daniel Minahan, director of the wonderful new film On Swift Horses, about the struggle to be your true self, just like...