Back on the road again, we hope!
O.K. I’ll admit it. With very few and minuscule exceptions, I have studiously avoided speaking to this terrible, frightening COVID-19 year. Why? A number of reasons. If I ignored it, I did not have to think about it so directly and thus it was pushed to the back of my...
Reading Rec: My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
emphatically and brutishly prided itself on ‘Mens Room ONLY’ mind-set.Toss in his obscenely cruel, son of a bitch father and it is a witches brew that entices, draws in and finally consumes the reader. Conroy’s writing is at times laugh out loud funny, often raw, sad,...
Reading and Writing and To Hell With Arithmetic – Save it for Word Counts!
Well, of course, writing is not War but it is indeed oftentimes ‘war’.The words are not going to write themselves. The words must be engaged by you and it takes effort, your effort. You are not Oscar Wilde and can easily toss off aphorisms at leisure. In order to...