Here's a writing secret that any good writer knows, but isn't highlighted in many books or even in classrooms—so it's a good gem to unclutter. No matter how refined your vocabulary, how rich your imagination and how deftly you can craft characters, your writing can fall flat on its face if you're... Sign in to see full entry.
So, it's been a hundred years since my city of dreams was shakin' and bakin' to the ground and, yesterday the few remaining survivors gathered in remembrance of what surely was a day or terror. And it was. The photographs and accounts of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake captured the... Sign in to see full entry.
I have always been fascinated by the space between two notes in a musical score. You know, that stretch that pours in transit from note one to note two. It's a wide gap and can be tailored to any persuasion—a bit of Bach, an Elvis riff, an erh-hu scrape or dare I say it, two Pink Floyd notes. This... Sign in to see full entry.
There has been a steady stream of White House short falls and embarrassments this year from the President's defense of giving port authority to an U.A.E. corporation to the Vice President's bad aim. Now, this isn’t the first time that a president's 2nd term has gone south, just ask Presidents... Sign in to see full entry.
There haven't been many instances in history that anyone can just saddle up and lasso words together and express themselves without criticism at the pain of death. Today were celebrate Easter, yet in the strict sense of the religion, the Inquistional sense and the Scarlet Letter of the Law sense,... Sign in to see full entry.
I was struck Eastery today. Yes, you heard me— Eastery. As I packed for my usual Friday journey from Pennsylvania, where the hills are gentle, to New Jersey where the sceptic tanks flourish, I stopped and watched the struggles of an Ant and I was struck EASTERY. The ant was trying to scurry into my... Sign in to see full entry.
When I was laid off after 38 years with my company, I asked myself a question: "What does a 56 year old diabetic who has only worked for one company his entire life and who makes $95,000 a year, who has never saved a nickel of it and managed to emass $55,000 in high interest credit card debt and,... Sign in to see full entry.
As I press the good old 39 cent postage to my Tax return envelope, the one with the $4,000 in it because somewhere along the line some accountant f**ked up in payroll, I could bemoan the loss of such a goodly sum — if I hadn't anticipated it. After all... Death and Taxes, isn't that the definition... Sign in to see full entry.
Where ever you turn, Channel 2 - 4 - 7, the NYTimes, CSN, the piss wall at the Rio Bianca Bar & Grill or the skywriting in the blue yonder, we hear of the plight of the undocumented immigrants. We also hear about the jobs that are lost to the millions of documented Americans, who probably would turn... Sign in to see full entry.
This morning while I was driving to work, I thought that no matter how many ideas I have and how many worries I ponder, there's just not enough room in that organic computer I call - MY MIND (others have labeled it diffeently - like The Scary Zone and The Deep Pit to Nowhere). So, although I have... Sign in to see full entry.