“Truth and Love Wins”
This has become my mantra in recent months: ‘Truth and Love wins.” It’s what gets me through the day when …
Category Archives: Writing
Artists & Writers in Their Studios
I’ve been collecting images of artist studios and writing spaces as inspiration for creating my own art/writing workspace. Some of …
Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known
As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog
“The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.” So writes Jacques Lacan, …
Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing
A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …
How Art Intensifies Life – Robinson on Writing, Metaphor, & the Sacred
I came across this interview with Marilynne Robinson, who is one of America’s finest living writers, in an old edition …
Naming a Painting, “Like Two Lovers in Conversation”
“Warm and rich, rich and warm, which is which?” Like a mantra, these words echo through my mind as I …
“Wondrously Strange,” Our Crossing to the Marquesas
I was reading from some of my old sailing journals when I came across this entry. It captures …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux
It’s been said that for writers the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think …
