Greetings. Hope your first week in the new year went splendidly. I haven't gotten much accomplished but I have been having fun. No doubt there are downsides to being so hyper-connected to the Internet and our phones. For instance, we often don't spend time in the moment. We're distracted. And it's been said we're losing the art of conversation. But I think that in a way this connectivity has driven creativity. Whether you're creating a meme or snappy Tweet or shopping … [Read more...]
News on Fiffer, Kirk, Rodley Submission info for Clutching at Straws, Silver Birch, Prime Number
How's 2016 treating you so far? Maybe this news and info will be useful. Tom Fiffer who has contributed a number of essays to this site has a new book, Why It Can't Work: Detaching from Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love. He is Senior Editor, Ethics, for The Good Men Project, which you should check out--it's "The conversation no one is having." If reading the thought-provoking stuff there inspires you to write about an issue, recently the site had … [Read more...]
Resolution
Resolution I’m going to pink therapy. Later, I’ll see about red care. I’m going to trim all my ego’s hangnails and perfume that space above the soft palate, just behind my uvula. I’m going to have all the hackles on my spine aligned and I’ve made an appointment to have each problem plucked from that very last nerve. And just temporarily, to see whether I’d like it, I’m having my synapses dyed a pleasant color, robin’s egg or eggplant. And just … [Read more...]
Year-end news: Boyle, Meno, Levine, Somlo, Cleary, Newman
Hey there. Hope your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus was wonderful. The end of the year always brings out the "best of" lists. Solace in So Many Words contributors made a few of these T. C. Boyle’s novel The Harder They Come was named the best novel (700 pages or shorter) by Newsweek. It was also named one of the best books of the year by The Express, by the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. Also this year, T. C. Boyle served as guest editor for The … [Read more...]
Misty’s “Gift of the Wild”
Gift of the wild On Christmas, a coyote came to our fence and ever since my dog has been visited by dreams of running with the pack, almost able to catch up but never quite there, lagging, and so her back legs push off as she sleeps in her bed, her eyes squint as if to see between the pickets, beyond the slats shadowed on the ground. She wants to stalk the ducks in the creek, no leash tugging like a conscience, to tip over garbage cans or to rustle among the … [Read more...]
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