Solace in a Book

Crazy-making devil

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Hey there-- Long time no post. Did I tell you I have a small poem ("Rue") on The Remembered Arts site?  Here is the link to my little poem about wishes undone. The photograph by Tyler Shaddix is beautiful and perfectly suited to the text.  Thanks to The Remembered Arts for featuring my work. For various reasons, as far as writing goes, I have been in a funk. Today on Twitter I found this quote by Franz Kafka and it seemed to sum up my mood these days. "A non-writing … [Read more...]

Facebook & new books (and poetry & taxes)

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Happy (almost) Tax Deadline Day! Hope you have your return prepared and that you are receiving a refund. Also hope you did not wake to snow as we did in Chicago. It’s odd certainly to get snow in mid-April and odder still to hear that baseball games are cancelled because of snow. Facebook has been in the news.  I have used this spot previously to discuss my qualms about social media. Sometimes, more often than it used to be, I am tempted to quit Facebook etc. But in … [Read more...]

Laura Rodley has two new books!

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Congrats to Laura Rodley. She has two new poetry books out this spring. Counter Point by Prolific Press came out March 22. I had the pleasure of reading it (and blurbing it). It’s a pirate tale, which will  "transport you to the North Atlantic in the early 1700s. Novelistic in scope, Counter Point uses scene, dialogue, and action-driven narrative. And like any good novel, this book introduces an unforgettable character, Marie, an ordinary girl . . .  who learns to navigate … [Read more...]

Happy Thanksgiving

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Hope your holiday is wonderful.  Thanks for reading this blog.  I have much to be grateful for and I hope you do too. Today's photo comes from Laura Rodley who explains:  “The photo I took while driving home and all of a sudden the clouds were setting on top of the cornfield like a  Shangri-la and I had to stop and enter their green vibrating world.” Thank-you, Laura.  Let us hope we can all find our own version of Shangri-la.   Laura Rodley, is a … [Read more...]