Some days you may ask: why am I seldom writing long, in-depth  pieces about a particular topic of burning interest? Why instead do I re...

Yes, I admit it. I do get depressed. This is like a Dalmation saying, yes, I do have spots. Or something. Just trying to set up this...

For more years than I can count, I carried a little slip of paper around with me with a few lines of what looked like poetry on it. I remem...

A friend and colleague of mine,  Matt Paust, recently passed along a link to a post on Open Salon by Ann Nichols. It recounted the ordeal...

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These blogs have a life of their own. This was going to be a serious treatise on "the writer's life" (or should I say, The! Wr...