For over ten years, I’ve written about reading and writing and life at Catching Days. I’ve also invited other writers to share days in their lives—an essay series that includes over a hundred writers.

You will now find Catching Days and the How We Spend Our Days series here on my website.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

—Anne Dillard, The Writing Life

I write novels about marriage.

About how characters navigate between separateness and togetherness. About how they balance the need for both time to themselves and time together. About what compromise does to a person’s sense of self.

Reading and books and language–I’ve always loved how the story is told as much as what the story is.

I’ve been on this planet for 62 years, and I keep needing to prove to myself that that’s true. It feels as if I’ve lived my life mostly on the inside and for the past decade, I’ve been trying to get the inside out. I feel tremendous gratitude to have been allowed all these years, and what I’m doing now is the best of the best.