The Wandering Writer
Ellen Girardeau Kempler"Always be a poet, even in prose." ~ Charles Baudelaire
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Tangled Up in Words
When I was a teenager, I had a journal where I wrote down my favorite song lyrics. Remembering it now (alas, it’s long gone), makes me realize something about the words that spoke to me then, and how they haven’t changed much in the many ye...
On Weathering Change
The forwarded Cox Communications letter to my deceased mother began:
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On Coming Unmoored
loss(n.)
Old English los "ruin, destruction," from Proto-Germanic *lausa- (from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart"), with an etymological sense of "dissolution." But this seems scarcely to have survived in Middle English...
Notes from an Adventurous Reader
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
Narnian World Map by By David Bedell - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://com...
Too much news to respond to.
Many fans of Rattle—the nonprofit poetry publisher with a print and online magazine and so many anthologies, contests, podcasts, workshops and specialized submission calls that it could accurately be called an enterprise—will be familiar wi...
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Author: Fire in My Head /Flame in My Heart (Kelsay Books, 2025); 30 Views of a Changing World (FLP, 2017) ~ OR-grown, CA-rooted ~ Hope is a verb born of action.
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