MY WRITING JOURNAL

When I say that white supremacy makes for terrible readers, I mean that white supremacy is, among its myriad ills, a formative collection of...

The best way that I know how to answer the question:  Do Ya Wanna Write? is to answer the question by letting the reader know what I did in ...

Life in America now is different than life in America was...  at least for the old timers...  who were around in the 1960's with the Vie...

Mornings begin slowly...  here in the valley...  what with coffee and cats and pills and cable...  food around noon - not always breakfast b...

I can see my reflection on the monitor screen as my laptop boots us...  an old face, deep set brown eyes with wrinkles at the corners,  a gr...

Caricature 1977 by Tom Edgerton, a NC Artist I wrote my first poem in high school (1962-1966) while we were living in Cairo, Egypt and it wa...

THIS MORNING...   in less than 20 minutes, I wrote down 5 poems, each of 10 lines or more, sometimes 20 and this was done spontaneously and ...

Being retired, it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between days of the week and days of the weekend but since so much of my life revo...

I always write in the mornings with coffee... From 1972 until 2015, about 43 years +/-, I have been seriously writing poetry everyday......

In 1974, I graduated from a NC University with a degree in English after entering that same University in 1966 after taking a leave of abs...

What an interested question that I have just posed to myself... I do not see myself as a Professional Writer because I did not earn a livi...

For my wife and I, we started staying at home March 16, 2020, and I remember when I went to my monthly cancer treatment last month on Mar...

I have a passion for writing but that does not mean that I am a professional writer or that I am even good at writing...   I just like to wr...

One of the first ideas that one learns in a communications class is the concept  of LISTENING...    For many of us, I suppose, thi...

I maintain several blogs on an irregular or daily basis besides this one. Reflections: White Scorpion ⇒ is a poetry blog that was started...

Retired at 67, now 72, so...  been retired 5 years... Worked for 45 years full time Fired 10 times by employers Still managed to survive...

Since my health situations put me into a high risk category, I am staying at home and only leave the house if I have a doctor's appointm...

March is done...  almost history... Time to look forward to April, May, and June... Mowing lawns Killing stink bugs Bee stings Bug bi...

, tumblrI have pretty much been wandering all my life and I guess I will keep wandering until I no longer live...   This blog is not the onl...