Tempest in a Coffeemug

All our dearly departed

    Sometimes I find that I begin my days with a strange ritual: stretching my bones in bed, and reaching out for something on my...

A spectacle of unraveling

    It’s kind of frightening to see how fast America—supposedly the most powerful nation in the world—is unraveling these days. It’s also kind of frightening...

A note on Resurrection

    APRIL 16, 2025 -- What defines my life—and perhaps everyone else’s in a frenetic world—is busy chaos. But finally, I have found some time for...

4 days of stories, 4 days of literary fellowship—a litany of thanks

    As of this writing, it has been eight days since we started the 2nd Dumaguete Literary Festival, and five days since we saw it...

Realizing a Dream of Books and Writers

    Like many things in my life, a literary festival set in the veritable literary cocoon that is Dumaguete was always a pipe dream—something you...

Recapping a life

    Lately—for the past few years, to be honest—I have sensed a pattern to my TV watching, and it always goes like this: the first...

Remembering the writers of Iowa, circa 2010

    Last March 6, I read the terrible news I knew was coming. The Trump administration was cutting off its annual funding of the International...

A personal journey to ‘City of Literature’

    A pipe dream is comfortable. Indulging in pipe dreams is safe because there are really no risks involved, only pronouncements. You can just say, “I’ve...

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