Literary Essays

Occasionally I write short nonfiction pieces.  I am a member of the Chicago Literary Club and every year or so, I deliver one after one of our regular meetings.  So far I’ve given the following:

• Your Rings and Your Wallet (2001)
      ○ Writers Digest awarded 4^th place to this personal essay in its national Personal Essay Contest.
• Deploying the Life Raft (2017)
• Play the Hand You’re Dealt (2019)
• Mrs. Satan: A New Evangel of Womanhood (2020)
•  In a Flash (2022)
  • you can listen to In A Flash, about flash fiction, including three of my own stories, Relocation, Paradise Lost, and This is the Story I Was Given Today, here

• Celebrations: Traditions and Transformations (2023)
• Does Writing Change the Writer? (2024)

A humorous essay from a while ago just placed in the top 25 in a national Writers Digest contest. Here it is:

Zen and the Art of Cleaning House