I Didn't Just Wake Up This Morning With A Craving
I Write To Understand. I Write To Stop Time
I believe my letter would go along these lines:
Well met, 10-years-ago-me!
How good it is to see you looking so well! I know, you don’t feel like you’re well, but you’ll get on track. It’ll be okay. I just wanted to tell you of a few things that may help over the next decade.
Continue reading “What Would You Say To Your 10-Years-Ago Self?”
I was raised in and have spent most of my life in or around St. Louis. I love this city, and it’s county. Having said that, I’m going to write truthfully and admit that my city, to its detriment, is fucked up in some bass-ackward ways. It is highly segregated, both along class and race lines. Continue reading “Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming”
Cohiba and I have spend the past several weeks looking for a place to move. While our current apartment is actually quite nice and I really like it, (though the drive sucks), we thought we had to move because the apartment is tiny for our needs.
Rather, our accumulated shit is too much for our home.
While I read these when I was a child, they really became important to me a few years ago, when a girlfriend and I would read them aloud to each other, adding our own little twists and details to the different adventures.
Since this author has passed, she and I have begun talking about taking over the task of writing books of this sort. Perhaps not as mystery-y, but still adventure-y.
Did you like these books, reader? What kind of adventure would you write about?
Being published through the 80s and early 90s, anyone growing up in those decades have fond memories of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories. Not only were they a neat concept but they had such a massive range of titles you could find something fresh and exciting to get into, even without the re-readability of the multiple endings. On 9th November this year the original publisher and one of the main authors, R.A. Montgomery, passed away aged 78. With some 250 books available in the original series this is not a definitive list of the best 10, but 10 that I remember fondly.
You Are a Millionaire
Please disregard the strange man in the bushes to the left.
Not considered one of the best in the series, it was unique for it’s more realistic take on the concept. While playing baseball with your friends you stumble across a satchel bag…
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Who doesn’t love receiving a handmade gift, made with you in mind? They’re unique, they’re thoughtful and can bear so many warm memories. I don’t do so well as giving them (though I think I may strive to do better in the coming months) but have been fortunate to receive several.
I found a blog (Ain’t No Ninny) that doing the artist’s answer to NaNoWriMo or NaBlaPoMo – they’re showcasing art they were doing every day in November.
When you’re writing, where do you like to be? Where do you work best? I don’t often get to my very favorite place and usually do it here at work, just out of necessity.
We wordsmiths write to make efforts to reach each other – to play with words, sculpt them and mold them to our uses. Then, as intelligent human persons, we know that much of huamn communication is nonverbal. For me, as a drug and alcohol counselor with homeless people, trying to get them to tell me things they don’t really want to tell me, non-verbal communication is sometimes as important as verbal.
Continue reading “Beyond the Words: 3 Steps in Reading People”
There are two kinds of people in this world: cat people and dog people. That’s what it boils down to. And I, friends, am a dog person. I was looking over some favorite puppy pins on Pinterest before coming back to wordpress.
Am I the only one who narrates what dogs do? As though I can really read their minds? I don’t think so.
Continue reading “Seven Exercises to Read Your Dog’s Thoughts”
Language is an ever evolving tool of connection between humans, and making up new words is fun. I even see this happen among my homeless clients, work which normally has lot of frustrations, heartbreaks and disappointments. But the wordsmithing efforts offset the difficulties. Continue reading “Ever Make Up Your Own Words?”
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