Category: articles
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Of Wine and Women
Many of us have tales of grand misadventures from our youth where we let our naivete and impetuousness get the better of us. My most infamous teenage picaresque tale involves a Christmas-gift makeup kit; my best friend, Brian; two illegally-bought bottles of Boone’s Farm wine; and a late-night stroll alongside a good stretch of rural…
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Every House
A plastic box for the local paperIs drilled into some rendition Of a post near every mailbox. There are traits made visibleFrom the underbelly Of each installation.Like a new graphologyTo determine from varying Degrees of crude angles, Stripped screw heads And nails left in that bent. Cultural drift, I suppose. Featured Download: If you would…
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Moon Walks
When I looked up at those silver slivers peeking through the branches on my moon walks, I thought maybe, just maybe my brother was seeing them too. Even if we were halfway across the world from each other. One in a city in the midwest, one in a desert in the middle east. This was…
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Artificial Sonnets
I. The poet needed badly to make money.It was a common problem, to be sure;His education lacked – to put it bluntly – Any skills that could stop him being poor.He found a list of fastest growing sectors,Summoned his meagre business acumen,He searched addresses for boards of directors.He sat, he wept, he prayed. He grabbed…
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Fudge Bowl
Father Peregrine’s musingsfrom that Martian midlandmoved me. How often I wallowin mindin wordin deed. Helpless in my disgust. Yet, when I call out,He scoops me;my mindmy wordmy deed. Alas! I was not made forthe fudge bowl. Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Working at the Health Clinic
She told me that missionaries Came in to get testedAfter having doneThe lords workIn Africa Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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A Christmas Carol (Stave Two)
Over the span of five posts, I am looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a musical…
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Art as a Language Made Visible: the Art of Gregg Shorthand
Art is about sharing the way we experience the world. Art brings us together and allows us to communicate on a different level. When people think about communication, they generally think about speech, but other means exist. Art is a visual means of communication, and my artwork is language made visible, art that speaks to…
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Dear Famous Agent
Dear Famous Agent – Great to see you at the annual tennis event. So sorry about your knee. Although it was nice to finally beat you in doubles. If you recall, my old agent has retired, and I’m looking to switch to fiction. It was always my first love. Does anyone at your agency specialize…
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Dora’s Light
He was walking across his living-room when it happened. Of course many wouldn’t believe him when he spoke of it later. They’d just smile, nod their heads, “Really? Uh huh,” they’d say, but they didn’t believe, no, not really. Of course they were polite, they’d listen—okay, so let’s get to what happened. Frank was crossing…
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McDonald’s v. Wendy’s
The ginger-topped, possessive mascots battled for my diabetes today. In one corner you have a clown that scares me half to death and in the other is Ronald McDonald. Wendy’s skill set begins and ends with bringing the 1-2 punches to Twitter like a girl who wears pigtails to spite pigs and I don’t even…
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The Invaluable Nature of an Arts Education
As children, we draw pictures to tell stories. The scribbles, lines, and outside-the-line coloring seem merely arbitrary; a dog next to a house with a tree, a stick figure creation, or the classic unproportional family portrait. We come home from school covered in marker ink and with heads full of stories. We sing songs to…