True Ghost Stories, Part III – When the Dead Refuse to Leave
My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. My grandmother Margaret had a hard life. Widowed in …
Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction
True Ghost Stories, Part II – Attack of the Poltergeist
It’s a blessing I think now that I never knew as a child that a woman whose blood still stained …
True Ghost Stories, Part One – Growing Up in a Haunted House
As Halloween draws near, I will be posting a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …
Blogging and “The Accident of Touching”
These are the last lines of a poem I wrote long ago. The accident of touching is so rare! Sometimes …
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 …
“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 …
