The Rolling Stones sang that “Time is on my side”, but rarely is it ever really on mine. Maybe if I had moves like Jagger it would be. Instead, I have the moves of a man with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. To say that I am often frantic, panicked, and tightly …
What if we pulled our heart-strings taunt across the sanctity of the safe place at our center and sang out long and hard?
Chuck Palahniuk says that “The writer isn’t afraid to tell an awful truth. The writer might not be smarter than us but the writer is braver and more honest.” My truth, my awful truth, and nothing but the awful truth is that I have a propensity, or, perhaps, a proclivity …
Recently, the awesome folks over at the Tattooed Buddha offered me an opportunity to review a book called The Dharma of Poetry by John Brehm. The subject matter of this book is something very personal for me and so I leapt at the chance to write a review. This certainly isn’t the first time I’ve written for the …
A couple weeks ago I posted an audio version of poem I wrote called “Abide”. Someone of you seemed to like it. I really enjoy spoken word poetry and listening to poetry readings, so I thought I’d try another. Hope you like it! I dig my heels deep and hard …
I can be a lot. Perhaps, I crave a kind of simple living because I’ve subconsciously convinced myself that if I can just minimize the things I possess then maybe I can minimize the things that possess me. Yet, I’ve found that no matter how bare my cupboard is made …
My friend Daniel Midson Short, whom I had the great pleasure of interviewing on my podcast a year or so ago, left a comment on something I posted recently. He told me that my persistent creativity was inspiring. I don’t know if it’s a matter of persistence or inspiration so …
Last week I wrote and posted a poem inspired by a friend’s sermon. I thought it might be fun or at least interesting to record a video of the poem being read as a spoken word piece. My initial intention was just to post the video on my social media …
AbideAbide in the dark my darling, abide.For just a while longer now, abide.Though it is bleakI beg of you, peace, be still, abideThere is a beauty that will beckon you to reach,But for now you must abide.Soon you will breach the blackness and you will begin to blossom,But only if …
In the previous podcast episode I talked about a book I had been sent to review called Learning to Be by Juanita Campbell Rasmus. I’m still reading my way through the book, and struggling to do so honestly. But, I wanted to share a few more thoughts that have occurred to me during the …
