I’ve been traveling a little for business, so I’ve been on a few airplane flights. Flying always gives me a strange sense of being in-between. It gives me time to think where no one else can reach me: no phone,…
Sooooo excited! Finally cracked the code on some of the more complicated formatting of a couple of poems in my ebook, Stars Crawl Out From Their Caves, and put it up on Amazon tonight. Hit that exciting “Save & Publish” button,…
I was journaling but felt like it could add up to more. I made notes about what I read, but didn’t fully flesh out what I’d learned. It was like leaving bread crumbs for myself. When I looked back over…
Often we think of poetry as focused on expressing the emotions and experiences of our individual lives, immediately, intensely, distilled to the essence of the experience we recall. Poetry can do that. But it can do other things as well.…
Lots of folks dismiss poetry out of hand. Obscure. Dense. Old-fashioned and boring. Poetry truly does have a poor public image. Unfortunately, Poetry has done a lot to earn that image, aided by schools and academics that try to instill…
