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: Writing
“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 …
“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”
Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …
On Regret and Kindness – Amazing Graduation Speech by George Saunders
It’s not often you get major writers speaking of such mundane and seemingly trite things as “regrets” and “kindness” to …
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 …
Living on the Edge of the Wild
Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
I created this blog to explore what it means to be living on the edge of…
Sailing with Kids into the Unknown, Continuation of Sea Saga, Part VI
This post is a continuation of the article I wrote about long-distance sailing with children that I wrote long ago …
