Wedding Power with Love on Labor Day
I used to write a labor column for the Santa Maria Times back in the late 90’s. The theme was …
Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
“Writing from the Underbelly” – My Revamped Website
I’ve been busy recently re-vamping my writers website at http://www.djbrasket.com, as well as creating a Facebook Author page, and setting …
The Joy of Aging
Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …
Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity
I came across this recently, something I wrote years and years ago. So much has changed since then, but not …
Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives
I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …
Love Lost, and Renewed
Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …
Love’s Duplicity
When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …
Personification – Infusing “I” in “Other”
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …
La Gitana, Our Larger Self – Sea Saga, Part V
We named her “La Gitana,” Spanish for the gypsy, partly in tribute to our family’s Spanish heritage, partly because sea gypsies …
