The team had lost key senior people. Suddenly, I was no longer a voice with an opinion. I was the one the rest of the team was looking to for cues about what to do. And I was fucking it up badly. In the middle of a conversation I dropped a sexist B-word when I … Continue reading “Put On Your Oxygen Mask First”

There’s a cuckoo clock hanging on my living room wall. We ordered it from Amazon years ago, but it’s imported from Germany because really, where else are you going to get a cuckoo clock? It’s relatively small as clocks go, and simple. It has ornately carved trim at the top and bottom, a maple leaf … Continue reading “Cuckoos and connections”

It is a truism that writers need deadlines. And it’s certainly true that the three of us co-conspirators have needed deadlines to write more regularly. We found our deadlines, for a little while, by writing at The Pastry Box. When they finished their fantastic run, we immediately started talking to each other about some way … Continue reading “From the Editors”