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2025-07-02 Welcome to July
After my last post a friend of mine messaged me and said “good luck doing nothing.” Or something like that and it’s true… I set an intention for June to do less. I wanted to minimize the pressure I constantly feel to do more or counterbalance that feeling that I’m never doing enough. How frustrating…
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2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…
I’m headed back to Nebraska City today. The home of UNOs MFA residency experience, the birthplace of my poetry career. Can a person craft a career out of poetry? No. That’s laughable. But it’s the cool aid they serve and I drank it in giant gulps. I exaggerate, of course, because that’s my way. A…
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2024-10-29 Still Kicking It (The Can, Down the Road)
September came and went. October too, it seems. How easily time slips away when… whenever, however, whatever always happens. It’s been a few months since I rubbed a couple sticks together and made a spark of a sentence. There are a few forces behind my hiatus from writing. The first of which is a fall…
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2024-08-08 808 Like a Drum..
An oldie that never gets old. Maybe someday someone will say that about me. 😂 This past couple weeks reading fiction for The Good Life Review in between trips to different hospitals, medical centers, and council bluffs has me thinking of all these one or two line vignettes that feel like silk in my head. Mostly…
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2024-06-05 Closer to Fine
Today I’m Closer to Fine. Way back a hundred years ago on April 18th, I wrote about the big question of “What’s Next” in It’s Only Life After All. But when I began unpacking that question, it only led to more questions. I always wholeheartedly accept lists so these six questions didn’t really bother me.…
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2024-05-14 A Question of Sustainability and Sanity
Today’s Q&A is all about The Good Life. My good life, the preservation of the preciousness of it, and a nod to all the time and effort that’s already been put in. I could be talking about my life or the literary journal I co-founded five years ago. The Good Life review. To say one…
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2024-04-19 Always halfway there…
Today’s Q&A is about pressure. As in… why I’m putting so much pressure on myself. And like most questions, it’s tightly wound with other questions, primary in this case is “Who cares?” If I never write or publish another poem in my life… who cares? If I don’t blog anymore… who cares? If I quit…
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2024-04-18 It’s only life after all…
Today I’m “jumping into this day from yesterday’s sin.” I didn’t promise part two of the post I wrote last last week about “Small Magic” because the Universe has a way of thwarting my plans. But Huzzah! Here I am fresh from reading what I wrote that day and back to continue the conversation. And…
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