Longridge Review, for years and years, has provided me a home to offer my editorial thoughts on submissions. I believe (powerfully!) in LR's mission—publish essays that reflect on childhood in a meaningful, intelligent, important way. Reading for LR is one of my favorite writing-life duties. Each summer, LR holds a contest in the name of…
Most of what I write is creative nonfiction. I like basing my art on facts. How I conduct my life—as a teacher, parent, and home owner—is through carefully constructed lists. I don't easily rest in the middle of things. My co-editor, poet Cheryl Wilder, does. Throughout our friendship, Cheryl has shown me what it looks…
Today is the day. The day. It’s the time too. 3:30 pm. Today, my youngest children, twins J&R, are 6 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days old. When I woke up on the day I turned 6 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days old, I had two parents. By dinner, I had one. I made…
My road in southwestern Connecticut is home to 16 houses, even fewer than the short road one I grew up on in the southeast corner of the state. My mother knew just about everyone on our “trail,” and I hope to know everyone on mine. So far, so good. I mean, SO good, because my…
We've launched a literary journal! Why in the world—why in this world—launch a literary journal? Writes Stephanie Burt in the New Yorker: "A new journal needs a reason to exist: a gap that earlier journals failed to fill, a new form of pleasure, a new kind of writing, an alliance with a new or under-chronicled…
