The price of existing is going up and I don't know what to do about it.

Years ago, I gave an unorthodox talk to an auditorium full of high school students.

Photo of Derek MacDonald by Steve Gregory

Whatever I was expecting, it wasn't that.

Pen held firmly between my fingers, but suspended loosely in mid-air, I noticed in real-time how muc...

Yesterday, I did something I don't normally do after someone commented on an essay I wrote...

As a writer I've never really dealt with writer's block in the way I've seen it described by others.

The snow was starting to pick up. Wind, too.

Most days I wake up in a fog of confusion, but not today.