Age Two- I wanted to go to my uncle’s wedding. My parents left me with my grandmother on my father’s side. I didn’t know her as well as I knew my other grannie, so I cried and cried. When my mother phoned to check on me and heard me crying, my parents decided to come get me and bring me back...

A dear, dear friend has decided to undertake writing a screenplay. He is a psychiatric doctor by training, and has a deep empathetic understanding of others. I'm sure that whatever he produces will be insightful. In a conversation with him, I remembered that a favorite writing teacher had pulled...

University of Iowa has the oldest and most prestigious creative writing program in America -- the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. U. of Iowa has over 40 Pulitzer prizes attributed to graduates and faculty according to Wikipedia. On a whim, I applied to an 8-week summer program put on by their...