WRITE THE BEST YOU CAN by Deborah Elliott-Upton “For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway I’m reading a manuscript for a young woman who is writing her first novel. She’s writing it in […]

BOOM! by Rob Lopresti We interrupt our usual display of wisdom and erudition to wish you all a happy Independence Day, two days early. This is, of course, the only American holiday so nice they named it twice. If you need that explained, I refer you to that excellent debating society, the regulars at the […]

Melodie has taken the week off. In her place, thanks to the good offices of our own “A.D.D. Detective,” Leigh Lundin, we welcome the talented Hal White, waxing eloquent on a subject near and dear to him, and to us all. Hal has been practicing law in the State of Washington since 1984, and for […]