Last week, I had one of those epiphanies that come when seemingly unrelated events collide and produce insight. In my case, three events gave me perspective my habit of (proudly) using big words. The first was wife Beverly chuckling over a John Grisham short story, Fetching Raymond. It’s a wonderfully written story in its own …
Over the last couple of years, I have been forced to learn about the difference between the drive to create and the (apparent) expectations of potential readers. Writing is writing, and the doing of it is reward in itself. It’s just that you need a saw and hammer sometimes to fit it into the genre. …
My Story Blues Highway was published in the May, 2013 annual Bacopa Literary Review, and I was asked to read a portion of it at the Bacopa annual meeting in Gainesville, FL. Here’s the reading: The Bacopa Review had 80+ short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry. See the Bacopa website for a copy. My whole …
A month has gone by since I promised myself that I would get my electronic world in order and blog twice a week. I also promised myself that I would not give into the temptation to publish personal banalities when I have nothing interesting to report. But that’s not it, either. I have a couple …
They always say “Join writing groups”. When I started out, I was skeptical. After all, my voice is my voice. Could other people perfect it? But, ‘they’ always say to join writing groups … So … There are quite a few groups where I live and work, and I’ve been lucky to find a couple …
My story called Blues Highway (see more on the Writing page), has been accepted for the 2013 edition of the Bacopa Literary Review. The 2013 print edition is expected by mid-May. The 2012 Bacopa Review featured “award-winning prose and poetry from 43 writers, New York to Los Angeles, and Australia.” I’m excited!
I need a pick-me-up, folks. In these dark days of gun-blasted insanity, I need something to remind me of the deep current of goodwill and understanding that runs through most of our lives. Something comforting. As a child, I loved bedtime stories … didn’t we all? Maybe that’s why one place I have turned for …
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. Geoffrey Chaucer said that about 600 years ago as part of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the first writing we would recognize as English. I believe it. What would life be worth if it weren’t a pilgrimage? Every day. I hope you will join my pilgrimage. I’m …
