The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I have little patience for ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve written two nonfiction...

Every Christmas Eve since 2005--20 years now!--I share one of my favorite bits of whimsy from possibly my favorite comic strip, Walt Kelly...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Author John Koenig coined t...

I mentioned a while back that I'm cohosting a podcast on the movie "Captain America: The First Avenger," which we analyze at ...

It nearly slipped past me! I was just reminded that today is National Twins Day, which I get to celebrate because I raised my own pair of ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Two weeks ago I wrote about...

Maybe the most magical moment of making a book is when the abstract thing you've been working on for a long time--until now a jumble of ...

In 1884, sculptor Frederic Bartholdi and engineer Gustave Eiffel built the Statue of Liberty in the middle of Paris before disassembling it ...

Once a week, Karen and I volunteer to distribute food for the food bank, which is not the point. The point is that today I pulled a carrot o...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When I was a child in South...

Today is "Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day"--really, you can look it up!--and, in remarkable synchronicity, less than 24 hours ag...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve been an amateur astron...