PinnedAll My Stuff, All Right HereA complete list of my Medium articles, stories, and poetryJun 23, 2020Jun 23, 2020
Published inDribble, Drabble, Fountain, and SpoutThe Glass FrogFriends! Neighbors! Countryme — uh, people of Medium! I have finally done the thing. After years of toil, years of drafting and editing…Jul 7, 20231Jul 7, 20231
Published inLit UpLiterary Rejection and the Slippery Slope of Self-SabotageWhy expecting rejection leads to failure, while accepting it leads to successMay 22, 20211May 22, 20211
“I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me.”Author’s note: this one was originally published a few years ago over at my now defunct blog The Academy. I don’t normally recycle content…May 4, 20211May 4, 20211
Published inDribble, Drabble, Fountain, and SpoutWho’s Telling This Story, Anyway?Literary ventriloquism and the art of narration in storytellingMar 29, 20211Mar 29, 20211
Published inLit UpThe Incalculable Value of Starting SmallThe novel. It is Mt. Everest for fiction writers, that singular, seemingly insurmountable challenge we all aspire to overcome. Tell me…Feb 27, 20212Feb 27, 20212
Published inLiterally Literaryblanchedpain, to begin with flat slap of water, falling into the cauldronJan 31, 20211Jan 31, 20211
Published inLit UpThe Path of Most Resistance“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” -President John Fitzgerald KennedyJan 30, 20216Jan 30, 20216
Published inLit UpBeliefit starts with a germ a single grain of sand grit detritus that slips past the calcified bounds and lodges in the soft meat withinJan 18, 2021Jan 18, 2021