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  • Mindfulness Writing

    I remember my father saying to me “stop dragging your feet”, not metaphorically, literally. We would be walking and he would say that. I’d wonder, what did he mean? My feet were connected to my legs and they were not being dragged. I spent a lot of my childhood clueless to what adults said. Maybe…

  • Fiction Writer Weirdness

    Writer of fiction, this one’s for you. Have you ever walked into a room and felt like you’ve been there before? Or looked at a random photograph and think it is familiar? But then realize in the next moment that no, you have not been there, but it resembles a scene you wrote about. Worse…

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Writer’s Tip#2 It’s no secret that running every morning, taking time at the ball field to swing or pitch, playing scales on a piano, riffing through chords on a guitar, or well, any skill that requires physical coordination, improves with practice. But practice writing? Not just writing and revising a project, but actually just writing…

  • Simple Answers

    100 Word Story It was her routine. Didn’t matter that this morning everything was different. “Excuse me, ma’am, what can I get you?” Her mind was a mess. Even the simple question threw her off. She couldn’t crumble like this. “Coffee maybe?” the Barista said with a smile that seemed to say she’d seen it…

  • Didn’t Expect That

    Have you ever watched a show with funny video clips like “America’s Funniest Home Videos”? If not, picture these scenes and guess what comes after the first few seconds of footage: A man is vaulting through the air toward a horse, arms stretched A teenager starts down the handrail of a flight of concrete stairs…

  • Submerged

    But not for long, Light shines above, Sounds, Yes, music, The anticipation of, Oxygen, Fresh in the lungs. How long have I drifted, In darkness, Murky, Kept beneath the weighted waters, Too deep in the caverns of choice, Going as the undercurrent, Took me, Lost from who I could be? Long enough. I almost forgot,…

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