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  • My Top Ten Favorite Movies

    WordPress’s daily prompt made me think long and hard today … These are my top ten favorite movies (in no particular order): Porco Rosso – One of Studio Ghibli’s lesser known creations, a lowkey, introspective movie set in 1930s Italy. The protagonist is an ace pilot cursed to have the face of a pig. Why? Read more

  • Writing is a Whitewater Rapid, Writing is a Block of Marble

    What do you enjoy most about writing? Writing is an act of creation. It is the free exercise of imagination and the production of things unseen, undreamt, uncertain until that very moment. It is as dynamic as a mountain river and just as unpredictable. It ebbs and flows. Currents crisscross one another and pull me Read more

  • Where Are My Glasses?

    What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? What do I carry with me? That question can be a profound one. What abstract qualities do I carry that sustain me through the day? What precious items do I keep with me at all times that show what I truly value? Read more

  • Finding Your Time to Write

    Everyone has a time when they are at their best for writing. Everyone has that time of day when they can “get in the groove.” Whether morning or evening, when the sun is rising or when it is setting, or anytime in between, we all have sweet spots when we find it easiest to settle Read more

  • One Smile at a Time

    Did you give someone a smile today? A small hello, a gentle smirk? Did you bid someone “Good morning” and “How do you do?” Did you let a stranger know that you noticed them and cared? It is a precious thing in today’s age. A little hello can lead to big changes. A drop of Read more

  • Charley Horse

    Charley Horse is riding again Up and down, up and down Fast enough to make my head spin Riding hard and fast as the stormy wind He rides in the night silent as a lamb I don’t hear him coming Then bam! He tramples my leg, turns it outside in I scowl and I seethe Read more