If you’ve nothing better to do…

The Mark Twain House & Museum sponsors occasional events for writers in the man himself’s library in Hartford. This Thursday, starting at 6 p.m., I’ll be the writer-in-residence there. We’ll talk a little bit about process (I don’t have a writing process, so that will be short) and then we’ll all hunker down and spend …

So I took a class to a homeless shelter on Thursday

It’s a public relations writing class (I know) at University of New Haven, and as a class project, we are writing an end-of-the-year appeal letter for Columbus House in New Haven. I love Columbus House. They’re a leader in preventing and ending homelessness, and an early adapter of best practices. They were a leader in …

So I have a new job

And I took this photo at the first of my two orientations for it, yesterday. I am the a new Distinguished [stop giggling, dammit] Lecturer at the University of New Haven‘s Department of Communication, Film and Media Studies. I’ll be teaching writing and communication, in addition to a writing for the electronic media course at …

Are you there, God? Judy Blume’s speaking in Hartford

The much-loved writer who got many an adolescent through a dark and lonely night will deliver The Clemens Lecture to benefit The Mark Twain House & Museum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. The event will be a conversation with the audience moderated by Julie …