Poetry

Six Word Story – Week In Review – 4/7/13

April 8, 2013 0 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

We’ve made it into the second quarter of the year and I’m still on track with my goal to publish a six word story about my life every day this year. I’m doing this both to improve my storytelling skills and to enhance my daily well-being. You can read my original post about this project over here. [...]

How To Make Art Tomorrow – And Every Day

February 13, 2013 2 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

I’ve been struggling for a while now about how to divide up my life. I’ve been trying to divide it up between: (1) my day job that pays the bills and (2) my writing and art I feel compelled to create. Writing feels like a calling, an artistic pursuit, a meaningful and very big purpose. [...]

How To Make Life Really Really Simple

February 6, 2013 4 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

Back when I was an English teacher, I used to collect a lot of poetry books. I never quit my love of poetry, but the poetry books eventually got outnumbered by leadership books and psychology books. And fiction books and science books. But the poetry books never got lost. And I never lost my love [...]

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