Rejection is not what you think it is A writer’s life is paved with thorns. The sooner you realize […]
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Sometimes a little health scare can put life into perspective I recently developed a condition called Benign Paroxysmal […]
She’d been buried under a stack of newspapers for years and only emerged for coffee and banana bread […]
The earth heals at night like a wounded animal scratching out its den. The earth heals at night, […]
Something my late father taught me that I’ve never forgotten was to surround myself with people who I respected, and people who inspired me. “Stand on the shoulders of giants,” he told me. And while I didn’t really begin to live by this code for some years, it resonated with me and I never forgot his advice. But what does it really mean to stand on the shoulders of giants?
There are a lot of writers out there who take their poetry very, very seriously. They study tone, lineation, verse and structure. They analyze rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and the many conventions of Western poetry. And while it’s important for a writer to understand the function of line-breaks, alliteration and form, etc – poetry remains one of the few forms of prose where there are no rules. Or rather rules that must be learned in order to be broken.
As some of you may or may not know, I’ve lived with anxiety for many years. Living in […]
