Writer
“But however and whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget …” — Bob Cratchit, upon Tiny Tim’s death. You live your life to protect those you love and nothing expresses loss more than to watch those you have sworn to keep safe wither under the terrible dance [...]
The way I approached writing my whole life was ridiculously simple: I would write when the whim warranted or when after a great deal of time had passed without expressing words upon page. The latter would usually fall upon me something like this: I would look out from the windshield of my car while drinking [...]
It’s been a long month and I, as always, am the King of Understatement. So much has come into my mind and so little has gone out that mighty river of imagination has all but grown stagnant and still. I have discovered things both beautiful and catastrophic. I have read thousands of pages from every [...]
It’s a strange sensation to go from years of languishing to days filled to the brim with everything you love so much. What was once a wasteland of distraction has become a glove-tight series of joys, even amidst troublesome struggle. Where not so long ago (but in my mind years) I would fill my days [...]
A great many ideas have come upon me over the last few weeks and none so wonderful as the realization that I have in fact, contrary to what my mind would previously allow me believe, accomplished some significant things during my time. The greatest has been the understanding that I’ve positively impacted the lives of [...]
I haven’t been as quiet as you might have thought this week … but I have certainly been growing steadily more frustrated. On Monday, I wrote 2,500 words for “Joe” and followed that up with another 2,500 word blog entry. Where is this monster blog? Deleted into the virtual nether as all but 1,000 of [...]
It’s noisy where I live. I don’t mean where our little Cape Cod house resides in Nowhere, Virginia but rather in head. On some days, like today, it sounds like a full orchestra is falling down the stairs. Sometimes the cacophony extends for days at a time, making it virtually impossible to concentrate. During these [...]
