
Living a Creative Life in a Creatively Challenged Universe
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Up until about a week ago, 2026 felt like an off-year for writing. I’d done my homework: 40 poetry and 8 Fiction/Essay submissions so far. However, nearly all of it, except for a very small smattering, was coming back with a no.
This is no...
How do you know when something is finished? Is everything a draft until you die?
Photo Credit: StevenDePolo on Flickr
This question was posed last night to three writers from my community at a reading last night: John Sheirer, Darlene Eli...
Shortly before we were delayed at a border crossing between Croatia and Montenegro, our day trip guide remarked in an off-the-cuff way: Everyone has their own personal poison, and for our part of the world, I think it’s nationalism.
She wa...
Despite not having played the chimes in nearly 50 years, I’m still a sap for climbing bell towers.
So far on this trip, I’ve climbed 4 belltowers, a total of 645 steps.
I will insist to anyone that this is way better than a Stairmaster. N...
As promised, I’m posting from Croatia, but I’ve spent the last few days in Trieste, Italy—a town with 5,000 Jews in 1938 and only 500 now.
I hadn’t been much aware of Italy’s Jewish history other than the obvious knowledge that their popul...
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