Category Archives: WRITING

Another quickie — Amazing color depth to nature during drizzle; so much more intense than viewed in sunlight. I know that there is most likely a scientific explanation for this, and blue light versus yellow light, etc., but leave me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I cannot reconcile the two the clintons and the chickadees the kerrys and the kin of yeats the george and lilac bushes. Philosophy can infiltrate politicals and poeticals to flourish as an apple tree among the weeds of eden. (Lost … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Since dawn my mind is filled with poppycock and pretzels, and wanting to devour yet needing still to loose itself from grounding as the daily theme. I need to dig my fingers into earth, perhaps in gardening, to bolster up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Joy of Flying The feeling is of lightness and the unburdening of life that’s left behind to melt and spread upon the sheath of earth, and be drawn in and absorbed within its core while freely flying far above … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I need a softer bristled brush, and oily pigments that will flow onto forgotten pastel canvas the image of the ghostly child that walked the lonely beach some thirty years ago. It haunts me still, and yet can I, with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is difficult for me to study and match in words the progress made in literature, especially in poetics. Again and again in mood and tone I seek regression rather than advance upon a world that seems too harsh to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday’s full schedule of events proved to be just as exciting and informative as day one of the Tunxis Writers’ Festival. The opening act was Ernest Dorling, author of Consciousness of Guilt and Murder: A Family Affair who stressed the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another interesting point brought up at yesterday’s Writers’ Festival, and clearly evidenced by these last three posts, is the mechanical orientation of reading text. Brought up in his lecture on Hypertext Media, Steve Ersinghaus once again displayed his ability to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shoot, I can’t sleep. As an addendum to the below post, one of the things that was said regarding the road to publishing one’s work is the old axiom, “don’t give up your day job.” Setting aside two hours a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Incredible day. Obviously I’ve been on a roll since October–no, much earlier than that I admit. Imagination, dreams, confidence, creativity, and hopefully, skill, are just growing and expanding as if unleashed, instead of festering inside to crush these qualities under … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today I am playing hooky from the frameshop. Thanks to an awesome effort by Neha of Wanderlust, there is a Writers’ Festival going on today and tomorrow at our Community College. Some of the speakers include David Pesci, author of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love to pick other writers’ brains, and weblogs are the perfect places to offer easy access. At The Word Foundry, in Fun With Dialogue, Joe Faust graciously shares a terrific point about show and tell (or show versus tell, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think there is a black hole in time between elation and depression and that is where one must not remain for long. It is a tiredness that halts the mind and searching for ideas is useless. Happiness writes with … Continue reading → Continue reading →