March 2026

My friend and colleague Sandi Boucher recently had me on her show Walking My Talk to delve into the topic “When Two Friends Experience Very Different Things In the Same Room,” about a real thing that happened, how different it was for each of us, and what we each learned from it.

I also had a wonderful conversation about The Copper Stone and my little chapbook about John Lennon on Suzanne Lang’s podcast A Novel Idea. Suzanne is a gifted interviewer and has had many incredible authors on her show, including Ian Leslie, who wrote the book John and Paul: A Love Story In Songs, which gracefully explores the relationship between Lennon and McCartney via their songs. Coincidentally, I had just finished listening to the audiobook days before Suzanne booked me, and the show right before mine was an interview with Ian Leslie!

Thank you to my friend Jennie Orvino for recommending me to Suzanne as well as for bringing her wisdom and insight to the Book Club.

In publishing news, my piece “Bloodground,” about a visit to the place where my slaveholding ancestors and the ancestors of my enslaved cousins lived, is included in the anthology Voices Elevated.

On the writing front, I’m in urban coyote world and north woods mountain lion world.

Readingwise, I just finished Joy Harjo’s heartstopping memoir Poet Warrior and am digging back into The Children, David Halberstam’s thorough and incisive account of the Nashville sit-in movement, to prep for a study group I intend to spearhead soon in collaboration with one of my stalwart social justice comrades.

Despite the terrors and horrors in the world, the lightbearers and footsoldiers of justice keep on. May we all do all we can do to shine light and help who we can help.