The wind is blowing, the tree limbs are bare, and the moon is casting pale, silvery shadows across the back yard. Wolves howl down the street, vampires flap around the deck, and ghosts haunt the dark recesses of my darkened house. I’m feeling in a Halloween mood, and that means it’s my time to look […]
Life Amid the Podcasts
Life has been different since the election. No kidding, right? Haven’t we all felt that? No matter what side of the political fence you sit on, you know that our world seems to be a much different place than it was just one year ago. So while the country goes through its paroxysms of disgust, […]
Summer Reading
It has been a crazy summer. Lots of work, travel, website redos (crazy…), but also a lot of reading. With school just about set to open, and football season well under way, I thought I’d throw out a quick and dirty list of books I tackled this summer. There are some really great ones in […]
New Site!
I have been working on creating a new site. It’s been awhile. I’ve forgotten how difficult this can all be. I’ve experienced lately, as I’ve been working on the tweaks and changes (and, yes, they are incredibly time consuming and often annoying), that I have experienced the “falling down the rabbit hole” phenomenon that often […]
Two by Mark Strand
I get these poems in my inbox from Knopf, their Poem A Day, as it were. These are two prose poems by Mark Strand, and they’re really good. I particularly enjoy “The Triumph of the Infinite.” They’re both from his Collected Poems. Enjoy (although neither one is very springy!) In the Afterlife She stood […]
Lucky 7: Coydogs, Journeys, and Trimming the Fat
This is a story about a story. My seventh story published. It happens to be a very dear story to me, partly because it took so long to travel from inception to print. Heck, it may not even be done on its journey yet. I started writing “Coy Dog” in the spring of 2011. […]