the rapture is already right in front of you
I’m still trying to understand why this poem moves me so much, and thought maybe you can help. And What …
Tag Archives: writing
Like Flowers Falling Everywhere: A Poem
Everywhere I look I see you, I see us. This fragile hand, this blue pen, this yellow pad. These fingers …
Neruda: Drunk With the Great Starry Void
One of my favorite poets, again, swept me off my feet, expressing the inexpressible with perfect eloquence. Poetry And it …
Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie
I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …
Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
On Photography – Researching My Sequel
I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …
Endings & Beginnings, A Writer’s Life
Well, I just finished rewriting the ending of my novel as requested by a publisher. We will see what they …
2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward
The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …
10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost
I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …
