Dog
Writing Process
A Puppy is the Solution to Pretty Much Everything
Somehow, getting this new puppy has lifted my depression and made me optimistic about the future. I can’t tell if this is just delusion, or a real lifting of the…
Dog
Writing Process
Somehow, getting this new puppy has lifted my depression and made me optimistic about the future. I can’t tell if this is just delusion, or a real lifting of the…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
…Death kept following, tracking us down At least I heard your bluebird sing Now somebody’s got to show their hand Time is an enemy I know you’re long gone; I…
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
The Big Idea
Writing Process
“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl If, on the night of June 2nd, you heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from a neighborhood in Northampton, that would…
Music
Nields
Parenting/The Full Catastrophe
Writing Process
After our big 25th anniversary shows at the Iron Horse last weekend, I was so tired I thought I would never recover. As I age, it seems performing takes more…
Journal
Writing Process
We have squirrels in our house. I didn’t want to tell you this, as it creeps some people out and many of you reading this blog have actually come to my…
Journal
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #8 “How you do anything is how you do everything.”-R. Rohr. This is a great insight into character development. Just saying…. Daily Prompt #9: “To be rooted is…
Journal
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #13 For A Nurse In this fragile frontier-place, your kindness Becomes a light that consoles the brokenhearted, Awakens within desperate storms That oasis of serenity that calls The…
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #20 “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.”– William Butler Yeats Daily prompt #21 “Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could…
Writing Process
Daily Prompt #1 At the Florida retreat, Carmela Pedicini had a great idea for me: to give a daily prompt or inspiration on this site. Let’s see how many days…