Happy New Year!

It has been a heckuva year, this 2022. As I sit with Random, eating super hot chicken wings and we watch Rocky III, learning lessons about family and perseverance, I hope you are surrounded by love, friendship, and family as we turn the page on 2022. My hope for all of us in 2023 is [...]

Lights Out on Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve and the power is out. I decided to spend a little time writing, but before I finished the piece I was working on on my laptop, the battery supplying power to the modem went out. No more wifi. I'm in the dark, in a rapidly cooling house. And there's no wifi. Far [...]

The Profound Silence of Creation

Wow. What a title. No pressure there.I was sitting on the train this morning, thinking about a conversation I recently had with a friend.We were discussing all the balls we have in the air, juggling our creative lives, including the desire for creative lives, and our workaday lives, and it came to me (as it [...]

Dear Tuesday

Dear Tuesday, Why, oh why do you feel like Monday? Is this just the first repetition in a Groundhog Day series of events? No. Please. No. It's early yet, let's get a cuppa joe down (or two) and reassess. You may feel like a Tuesday yet! I believe in you.   Signed, Cautiously Optimistic