“Taste and see – I am spare”
That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …
Tag Archives: writing
Cultivating “a mind of winter”
I fell in love with Wallace Stevens’ poetry when I first read “The Idea of Order at Key West” in …
Help Me Celebrate a Writing Milestone
I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years. It feels …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
This is the title of a short story I wrote that was published in the Fall Issue of Cobalt Review. …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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…
The Pieta and the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
