
If you’re reading this, then you probably love stories. Reading them, watching them, living inside them. Best of all, writing them. Continue reading “Story Time”


If you’re reading this, then you probably love stories. Reading them, watching them, living inside them. Best of all, writing them. Continue reading “Story Time”

Recently, while out with a writer friend, I asked what she’d been up to lately. “Today I finally found the lede for the story I’m working on,” she said. She paused a moment. “Isn’t that the best feeling? When you find your lede?”
For those of you not familiar with “lede,” it’s a word some nonfiction writers use for a story’s beginning. And yes, when you find your story’s beginning, the true, right beginning, it’s an exhilarating moment, indeed. Continue reading “The Opening”

From our 14th-floor conference room window in midtown Manhattan, I looked down to see about twenty people frantically trying to lift a black SUV. Continue reading “Stories. Everywhere.”