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A great crash from Sophia’s room. An avalanche like distant trees toppling in the shock wave ahead of a meteor. I know I should be more diligent or insistent or some other force implying word about the cluttered space known as her room. But I am not in a position to point fingers. In my …
I knock on the door. Rap a tapping tap like some musty raven to wake Sophia so she can get ready and go to school. “Ugggg…” like the not quite so dead discovering she is on the wrong side of the crypt door or sealed up behind a wall. Or worse yet the dead being …
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Observation, it has been observed, is a key element in being a writer (just think any artist when I say writer). Indeed some say to live a fulfilling and joyful life a person must be able to live in the moment. It’s hard to escape the moment when you are savoring it no matter what …
My greatest misconception about being a writer when I was growing up was that writers needed to go out and have experiences. I was captivated by Joseph Conrad having been a sailor, Melville having been a whaler, Twain a miner and riverboat pilot, plus Hemingway, and London to name a few. I went out to …
Writers Reading: Jerry D. Mathes II. Recorded this in a hotel room in Bakersfield, California. Proud to be included in the wonderful new online video lit mag, SPACES. Be sure to see the other great works there. I am interested in this collusion between technology and art
I’m still giddy from my New York City trip. I met and reconnected with some amazing people. During the Saturday evening Jack Kent Cooke Symposium I was given the opportunity to talk about publishing and getting a book published with