On Soul-Baring Pronouncements, Epiphanies and Wild Inspiration
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott ahhhh… There is a method to my madness. Yesterday, I introduced you to my massage therapist, the Diabolical Dave. I...
View ArticleI Feel Your Pain.
Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone? ~ Joni Mitchell, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ ‘I feel your pain.’ Shortly after President Bill Clinton uttered those words in 1992,...
View ArticleTossing and Turning: Dreaming is Hard Work.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. ~Joan Didion I don’t know about anyone else, but I dream a lot. All the time. Many years ago, when I was a teen, my friend...
View ArticleEveryone Has a Story – Here is Mine.
Amtrak Saluki passes March 15, 1999 crash site on March 15, 2013. Inset: memorial plaque. “Take a deep breath,” she said. Just over two years ago, my friend Bobbi Emel asked if I would be interested...
View ArticleThe RCC — Because Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day. (Plus Bonus!)
This post is long past due — my apologies to the rest of the crew. The Rome Construction Crew, or RCC, is the delightful brainchild of Bradley, whose blog, Green Embers, is full of his writing, his...
View ArticleA Greater Miracle.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? ~ Henry David Thoreau So opens a short video that was shared on my Facebook feed today. It is a promo...
View ArticleDiscipline — You Won’t Find it Here.
Discipline. I suck at it. I know I need to set aside time to write, and not just here in the blog. I really need to make some progress on the children’s book I’m trying to write. And by ‘trying,’ I...
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