Solace in a Book

Dana Awards, Silver Birch Press, Pottawatomi Nation

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We’re on the other side of the middle of October—how did that happen?  Hope the month has been treating you well. There's a call for submissions I want to mention. Through LinkedIn, I heard from Mary Elizabeth Parker creator and chair of the Dana Awards, and she is encouraging you to submit work for consideration. The purpose of the Dana Awards is to offer monetary encouragement for work that has not been recognized. Novels, short fiction, and poetry are considered. … [Read more...]

Bugbears and bugaboos

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The two things that work against me as a writer are distraction/ procrastination and dealing with rejection. I thought had 15 rejections in a row but then I counted and it’s more like twenty. Usually I can shake off a rejections, realize it is nothing personal but a business decision, not a reflection on my writing per se so much as on the journal's content . But you know what it’s like. Sometimes you place a little more hope in a submission, and you think: maybe this … [Read more...]

Pizza, Papercuts, and Weiwei

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Last week The Chicagoist published "The 20 Best Pizzas in the Chicago Area." When I posted the link on FB, it got more “likes” than a lot of my posts.  Wednesday I went with two of my sisters to try a place on the list. It’s Flo & Santos, 1310 S. Wabash.  The Chicagoist was right, the pizza was good. We all wanted different ingredients on our pizza so we ordered the lunch special, which was an individual one-topping pizza and side salad. Delish. After lunch we walked … [Read more...]

Falling

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Today at 9:29 pm is the Autumnal Equinox so I thought I'd share my poem. I 've had  a long dry spell; something like 15 rejections in the past two weeks so I figure I'll publish one of my own poems here. Hope your writing is going well, that your dry spell is short, and that autumn is kind to you. Peace, love, and solace   Autumnal Equinox On a Saturday, wind blowing, sun in a wide sky, this family of four goes to the woods, or what passes for them around … [Read more...]