Major Life Changes – Writing with Toddlers (or not)
Funny how life plays these little tricks on you. When my own children were toddlers, I put my writing aspirations …
Category Archives: Writing
“Looking for Bobby,” or Losing & Finding Ourselves
May is short story month, and in celebration I’m posting a short story I wrote years ago and published in …
Poets on Poetry: Mark Doty, Mackerel & Metaphors
One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …
Sexy, Smart, Sweet, & Soulful
Finally! I found what I was looking for when I wrote the post Speaking of Erotica, a “steamy love story …
Primary Wonder & A Bell Awakened – Two By Levertov
The whole purpose of life, of this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the wonder and mystery …
Whitman – Where the Sensual & Soulful Merge
Walt Whitman is indeed that poet who sings the body electric, who shows how the sensual and the soulful mirror …
Speaking of Erotica . . .
. . . have you read anything hot lately? Perhaps it was the convergence of Valentine’s Day and the release …
Happy Valentines Day – Celebrating Lasting Love
I’m reprinting a post I wrote two years ago, the first to be Freshly Pressed. Hope you enjoy it. They …
Dawkins and the Wonder of It All
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it no one thinks to …
Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters
At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …
