I’ve been fortunate enough to have a handful of things published. Some journalism, essays, poetry, and fiction. Even got some paychecks. But, I admit, sending stuff out is hard. As an unknown author, you are a pebble on the beach—so very many people want to be writers. Editors are getting mountains of submissions. The odds [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Submitting
Posted in On Writing, Personal on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Letter to My Dad (June 23, 2010)
Posted in Personal on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hey Dad, Eighty-nine years. That’s a good, long time. Enough time for one World War to end and another to begin (you may remember that second one—you fought in it). Thank God, that war ended too. Other wars followed. Walls went up and came down. Sixteen Presidents came and went. Human history wrote itself in [...]
Interviewer Becomes Interviewee
Posted in Essays, Journalism, Personal on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the five-year anniversary of 9-11, the Courier interviewed me. They were looking for local opinion regarding where Americans felt they were five years after the terrorist attacks. I’d had an article published in their October 3, 2001 paper regarding my personal experience on the day of 9-11 so they contacted me for an update. [...]
In Memory of Don
Posted in Personal on July 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
My friend Don died Feb 24, 2008, just a few months shy of his 50th birthday. Leukemia. He took all the steps, he fought hard. He wanted to live. I can only imagine his pain—emotional and physical. You’re supposed to be in the middle of your life, you have a wife and a daughter. You have plans. [...]
Jim Jams
Posted in Music, Personal on December 19, 2001 | Leave a Comment »
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