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 …
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Emily Dickinson, Blogger Extraordinaire
I cannot help wondering whether Emily Dickinson, that famous recluse, would not have been an avid blogger if she had …
Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to See Humanity Behind the Hand
Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to see Humanity Behind the Hand by Deborah J. Brasket He stood there, a youth from …
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 …
“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 …
