Martini with a Twist

On Being Elizabeth

And, yes. Links.

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

The Bird Story, Part 6

and, of course, links.

Aug 14 • 

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July 2025

The Bird Story, Part 5

Plus a couple o' links

Jul 25 • 

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The Bird Story, Part 4

Plus some links because I can't stop linking

Jul 8 • 

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June 2025

You shall know me by my limping

Plus some links!

Jun 5 • 

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May 2025

The Bird Story, part 3

(America has always been America)

May 28 • 

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The Bird Story, part 2

The beginning of the story is here.

May 20 • 

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The Bird Story

I earned my first byline more than 25 years ago. Over that time, the vast majority of things I’ve written have been published in some form or another. I…

May 14 • 

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April 2025

A distraction or two

Every other Sunday when I was in high school, I’d have dinner at my grandparent’s house.

Apr 18 • 

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March 2025

730. 740. Whatever it takes.

Another in our ongoing series of Doing the Right Thing Gets Very Expensive (Local Government Edition):

Mar 26 • 

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And here we are again

I had this whole essay about the shitshow that is NYS’s 730 competency process (seriously, it’ll be a banger of a post) but then I finished Sara Gran’s…

Mar 18 • 

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February 2025

Advice to a writer + a whole lot of other stuff

The first six weeks of 2025 have been absolutely wrenching.

Feb 14 • 

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