A Time to Read

The Covid-19 period has been difficult for everyone—for millions here in America and around the world, it has been more than difficult—it has been heart-wrenching and tragic. The truth is we’ve all had to cope, some of us more than others. A friend asked recently if...
Heaven

Heaven

Isaiah (or was it Elisha?) was caught up into Heaven in a chariot of fire once. But when the weather is divine and I am free to work, such a journey is positively nothing. — Katherine Mansfield
Boundless

Boundless

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Kindness

“There are things,” Trudi’s father told her long before she was old enough for confession, “that the church calls sin, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing—” He paused. “—is to be...
Found while mourning Paris

Found while mourning Paris

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserable every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams
Excellence in the Art of Living

Excellence in the Art of Living

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play, her labor and her leisure, her mind and her body, her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through...
The Lamb Perspective

The Lamb Perspective

Charles Lamb, on being criticized for being late to work, replied, “But have you noticed I always leave early?”

Empathy, Not Experience

“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki...
What I’m Doing

What I’m Doing

I’m writing a novel. Actually, I finished writing this novel quite some time ago. Now I’m revising. The work of revising seems to take everything out of me, which is why I seldom show up on this blog. Between writing and revising, thinking about the...

Revision

“Only death, his own, should prevent a playwright from considering yet one more revision to his script.” — Oscar Wilde