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Back in Boston! After three years away I flew into Boston late last night am spending a wonderfully lazy day in my friends’ basement apartment. […]

As I read in bed this morning, thirty minutes or more after I was supposed to shut my alarm off and my light on, I […]

I went about six months this past year mostly not eating breakfast. I know — the horror, the most important meal of the day, breakfast […]

Because we won our game tonight, and winning feels great, here is a quick ode to the sport I have always loved and rediscovered this […]

For my weekly Tuesday writing update, you may be tired of hearing me talk about writing, but I want to hold the tradition even after […]

I want to write stories like S.J. Goslee. She’s published two books, Whatever and How (Not) To Ask a Boy To Prom, the latter of […]

I felt a strange sense of emptiness today, having paused in working on my story while it awaits feedback. This weekend is about celebrating this […]

By Natalie August 31, 2019

I shared my completed first draft today with voluntary first readers. After the six months of trash draft and the few months of summer intense […]

By Natalie August 30, 2019

The first time I wrote about Jack I was in the Iwasaki Library on the 3rd Floor of the Walker Building on Emerson’s campus. I […]

Wake up to an earful of NPR An hour-long alarm I don’t turn off I dream of a movie plot While they interview an actor […]