It seems my dear writer friends are lousy with new books: Cathy Colman’s book of poetry, Time Crunch, will blow your mind. Period. It does everything poetry does best, with transcendent language, incisive humor, vivid imagery and touch of quantum physics. Magnifique. David Sanders not-so-recently published a beautiful, amazing and dangerous book, which I neglected […]
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2 new stories 2 new stories
See what happens? You work on a novel for a year or two or five, and you stop making blogposts. Or do you stop making blogposts because who makes blogposts anymore. Making blogposts isn’t even a thing. Sometimes a thing itself is barely a thing, but that’s why I like them both. Sometimes wrong is […]
Apropos of Zonkeys
I may be extremely late to the party (it happens frequently) but last week I learned about Zonkeys. That they exist. Here’s some sexy zonkey background: The Zonkey is a hybrid animal that is created by cross-breeding two different species of animal that belong to the same genetic group. Technically though, an individual is only […]
Please to Meat Me
I was walking on another trail in my hood, this one heading straight down from Kite Hill. It must have been around Easter. As if that could explain why I encountered three beautiful slices of legendary HoneyBaked ham, evenly spaced on the footpath like little pork pavers. Nice thick pieces with crusty glaze coating just […]
Lessons from a Maxipad
I take morning walks a couple days a week up to Kite Hill. My heart doctor recommends it, since the election. The past couple months, I’ve been coming across garbage at the end of the road past my dead end street. From overenthusiastic garbage trucks, recklessly heaving their bins. There’s a maxipad in particular that […]
Ceci n’est pas un blogpost
I’ve been thinking about resurrecting this old blog that used to be called Bigfoot Lives! but I haven’t been sure how/what/why. So here’s a photo of a print that I love that’s in my office. There’s some stuff reflected in the glass. Get over it. I purchased the print at a WriteGirl benefit a bunch […]