Important Advice from Mad Men's Matt Weiner

Important Advice from Mad Men's Matt Weiner

Thanks to Paul McVeigh for posting this fantastically inspirational article by Matt Weiner of Mad Men fame. I love Weiner’s article and want to share it with everyone for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, because everything in it is true and generous and important...
Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

I’m back in writing mode now, which is a lovely, though sometimes aggravating mode to be in. It’s interesting to me how it doesn’t seem to matter how many novels I write — and amazingly, I am now starting on my fourth – the same questions...
Finding Poetry in Cambodia

Finding Poetry in Cambodia

Over the five years that I  have been engaged with all things Cambodian, I  have written two novels set there, started to research a third, taught a couple of hundred students, raised money and awareness. I now joke that it seems I work in Cambodia although I live in...