Like many people, I don’t enjoy going to the dentist. The scraping and scratching are like nails on a chalkboard to me, and I usually meditate myself to somewhere else—a… Read More
Genre: Grantee Story
Choices and the Chances They Create
Last night I wrote this tweet. Today I thought I’d expound. Some authors are a brand. They create stories within similar settings or with similar themes to give their… Read More
Loving Through Life’s Longing
Blog #25 Poetry is my language of love, because for me, my poems are mostly love poems to the world, and prayers. It’s the best and biggest beauty I… Read More
The Story of Goodbye
Blog 25 The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye. – Jimi Hendrix How do we know… Read More
Urchins and Gwumpkies
1956 BC (Before Cell phones) I was born into a happy middle-class family with a WWII veteran dad, a stay-at-home mom and three older sisters. It was a generation called… Read More
The Pros and Cons of a Zoom Book Release
Never would I ever have imagined that my debut book would be released during a pandemic. When I was drafting the poems of Danzirly, I could not fathom having a… Read More
Everybody or Danse Macabre: Part II
Hamlet. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… We’re in a dream. It’s about Everybody dying. It’s also a play. We’re in a theater. It’s dark and… Read More
Everybody Part I
Everyman. O, to whom shall I make my moan For to go with me in that heavy journey? I first read Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in a directing class… Read More
Art in Roser Park
This weekend I get to do something I absolutely love- I get to perform- with live music, live actors, and a live audience! After more than a year of shuttered… Read More
BEEN TOO LONG AT THE FAIR… BLOG #23
The last two week’s have flown by, so fast that I missed doing last week’s blogpost! So I’ll make it up by writing two today (sorry!) since I’ve much to… Read More