Open Hearts
So I was thinking straight out of my dream world: Lutheran’s tell you when to believe, Baptists tell you what to believe, Methodist tell you how to believe, Presbyterians tell you why you believe. The...
View ArticleHoliday Jam
The wall-to-wall sleeping bags in the living room are gone as is much of the food in the freezer and cupboards. But my heart is full. A lightness near the left shoulder seems to house a Christmas...
View ArticleThe Love Nest
My next four characters in “The Love Nest” are all in their thirties. One woman is a secular person the other woman is a believer. One man is a doubter and the other is an antagonistic hater of all...
View ArticleTom Blubaugh: An Issue of Time
An Issue of Time Tom Blubaugh Time is an intriguing phenomenon. Humans measure time in seconds (nano, micro, milli), minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, months, years, decades, centuries, and...
View ArticleAnn Arbor RWA Chapter
Rohn Federbush is attending writing workshops at Crazy Wisdom each Thursday night from 6-8:45. So far she has added about 3k to The Love Nest. Also Rohn attends a Thursday morning writing workshop once...
View ArticleWith the Spirit of Forgiveness
Sending the Spirit of Forgiveness The sight of fleeing immigrants from America into Canada’s frozen fields has incited a riot in me. Who will condemn ICE officials from following inhumane orders to...
View ArticleSexual Politics
Proverb: Even a small star shines in the darkness. How old was I when I realized Daddy was more handsome than other fathers. When he smiled, women would curl their toes. His lean work-hardened body...
View ArticleGod’s Time: Kairos
Kairos (God’s Time) Rushing around trying to meet a deadline Stuck in traffic, can’t drive through the car in front A quick prayer for help either elongates The minutes or relaxes enough for real...
View ArticleHow to live with Critics
The New York Times June 18th BookReview author Adam Kirsch says, “The artist can look away from criticism, because the creative act involves a difficult self-assertion, which might be compromised by...
View ArticleThe very void explored:
Holding onto works when winds sway stouter fellows, is as natural as the well-placed ladder or leg up. Wood doesn’t hold. Get a grip never […] Read More The post The very void explored: appeared first...
View ArticleResonant Cavities
In which questions can be heard welcome those who push on the doors of oppression; Salman Rushdie, Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Gloria Steinem and John […] Read More The post Resonant Cavities appeared...
View ArticleI numbered, read and owned most of
Somerset Maugham’s novels and short stories. He first wrote stage plays and said to strive for clarity and then euphony. But in “Cakes and Ale” […] Read More The post I numbered, read and owned most of...
View ArticleSteeped in plenty of the middle class and the penalties of boredom,
I read in fierce encroachments of vividness Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in 1965. By means of a process of defamiliarization Tolstoy describes the familiar with […] Read More The post Steeped in plenty of...
View ArticleDo creative thoughts rain from temporal powers outside ourselves?
The coupling of confusion and experience muffle psychological orphans who search out a history before lanes were lit in ungracious advertisements, spending hours down to […] Read More The post Do...
View ArticleA full comprehension of the wholeness of life
is cramped by language. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language creates a world out of words could be a wrong theory. It is the digging for that […] Read More The post A full comprehension of the...
View ArticleAnd where is structure made?
In round sunsets and rounder moons when the razor’s edge of pain tips sanity? How does the disenfranchised mind produce? Why don’t we know how […] Read More The post And where is structure made?...
View ArticleRebellious Crews
The language of those oppressed by the present system is the language of poverty. Age, beauty and talent are variables in this scenario but the […] Read More The post Rebellious Crews appeared first on .
View ArticleIn Lincoln’s Shadow’s Review
March 16, 2016, 5 Star by Frank Scozzari: This is a fantastic detective mystery that kept me reading late into the night. I loved the […] Read More The post In Lincoln’s Shadow’s Review appeared first...
View ArticleVeterans’ Plight
Let me know what you think of this idea for a book pursuit. I was thinking about justice, but that gets complicated when mercy is […] Read More The post Veterans’ Plight appeared first on .
View ArticleNOW
Skin reaches beyond walls Drives. Tree-lined dirt road calls Heart beast faster at news No surprise anger brews I always knew rage exists Waited too […] Read More The post NOW appeared first on .
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