I was lucky enough to spend a few days in the Badlands this past week. If you don’t like stark surroundings, this may not be for you....

Sometimes, the idea that I write stuff on a daily basis feels like so much fluff, like it’s something that really doesn’t make much...

What are the ghosts that follow you into your art? I’m sitting here listening to Rancid’s “Let the Dominoes Fall Tim Armstrong There are...

Today, my local newspaper had an article about online rants, bloggers and free speech, and how the Internet has allowed millions of...

To start the day with the newspaper or to start the day with freewriting. That is the question. Well, for me, anyway. Today it was the...

Lately, I’ve been reading lots of poems by writers who categorize their pieces as romance. I don’t seek out romance poems and sometimes,...

Two weeks ago, when I rather flippantly said that I was going to Chicago to revive my creativity, I was surprised at some of the...

No blog post for the next two weeks. I’m off to revive my creativity in Chicago. The blog will resume on Wednesday, August 4. Happy...

The sky is clouding over with those thick, dark clouds that roll in on a stream of rising humidity during a hot summer afternoon.The wind...

One might expect that a rainy summer afternoon is the perfect time to hang out and write something. However, if you’re this writer and...