Words can still move the world
For more than thirty years, writing has been one of the constants in my life. I write because stories matter. They help us understand one another, make sense of our own experiences, preserve what should not be forgotten, and sometimes see the world through someone else’s eyes.
My work spans fiction, nonfiction, personal storytelling, cultural commentary, satire and stories about love, identity, aging, loss, resilience, democracy, and the human experience. The subjects may change, but the thread connecting them is simple: I am interested in people, what shapes us, what challenges us, and what allows us to remain human in a world that can sometimes make that increasingly difficult.
I publish Still Human, where I write about identity, culture, aging, personal reinvention, humanitarianism, democracy, human rights, and the experiences that connect us to one another. Some pieces are deeply personal. Others look outward at the country and world around us. In both cases, my goal is the same: to make people think, feel, question, remember, and occasionally see something from a perspective they had not considered before.
I also publish Still In Love, a storytelling publication devoted to LGBTQ+ love in all its depth and humanity. Through fiction, true love stories, historical relationships, novels, and shorter works, I focus on romance as relationship rather than spectacle. These are stories about companionship, commitment, longing, loss, second chances, and the simple truth that love is one of the most universal experiences we share.
My writing has changed as I have changed. Experience has a way of doing that. More than six decades of life have given me memories, successes, failures, fears, heartbreaks, joy, loss, and love to draw from. I no longer feel compelled simply to add more noise to an already noisy world. I want the words I put into it to have a reason for being there.
Sometimes that means telling a story that helps someone recognize a piece of themselves. Sometimes it means documenting a moment in our culture or history that should concern us. Sometimes it means writing something hopeful simply because people need reasons to believe there is still goodness around them.
I am an author and storyteller first. I believe words can entertain, comfort, challenge, preserve memory, create empathy, and make a difference. If something I write causes another person to stop for a moment, think more deeply, feel less alone, or look at someone else with greater understanding, then the story has done what I hoped it would do.
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