I admit, for me it is not always an easy task to come with something to write about. Most of the time, I need a little inspiration to get the ideas flowing. Inspiration can and has come from a variety of sources. It could come from a general situation or an observation I made. It also most certainly can come from a specific person. Many people have been unwitting muses for me. A lot of them good and positive. A few of them, well, let’s just create a category and call them a venting muse. In other words, they inspire me to write out my frustration and grievance instead of, you know, confronting them.
Continue readingWeight No More
At some point,
I can’t tell you when,
I picked up a weight
unseen, I carried it within.
The weight settled in my soul
and I felt it when I sighed –
one of those deep cleansing sighs
that should have made me feel right.
Continue readingGood Cheer
Here we are in the season
where we wish each other ‘good cheer.’
But why keep it bottled up?
Why not wish it every day of the year?
Continue readingA New Shift
I started this little blog at the end of March 2011. At that time, the primary purpose of my blog was to serve as an outlet for my writing. I am the person that always had these little pieces of paper everywhere I went with thoughts written down. This seemed to be a natural course even though I didn’t really understand what I wanted to say. I just knew I had something to say. And to be honest, I thought I had something so worth saying that people were going to love my writing.
Continue readingChristmas Traditions
Christmas is steadfastly rolling in
a time of traditions
tell me, how do you spend it again?
Continue readingMy masterpiece
There was a good stretch of a few years, that I had a daily goal to write 20 minutes a day. It was mostly fluff stuff but it was still something I actually did. A goal I actually accomplished and me and goal fulfillment has not always been a thing. I filled up a couple of small thought notebooks and probably shared most of my writings on this blog. Then one day, I stopped writing in my little book on a daily basis. Mainly because I didn’t feel like I was improving any so why bother? One day became two which became a week, a month, and a few months without writing daily. I just don’t write things down like I used to. I would not declare it a tragic loss but rather just life moving downstream with different goals and agendas prioritized.
Continue readingMy Standard Stick
I don’t remember when
but quite some time ago
I picked up a stick to measure
that I held like a treasure
to watch my character grow.
Continue readingLiving in the Age of Sci Fi
That’s really the only way to describe this era. This is about what has existed in minds of science fiction writers for ages. Our reality is what used to be far-fetched dreams of mad authors. I’m referring to AI, of course. I’ve listened to the debates and I have a fair understanding of the concern. For the record, I am wary of what AI is doing but I have to be honest, I’m also a impressed. And now that I have been dabbling in it, I’m going to enter the AI conversation.
Continue readingFit Out
I used to feel the pressure
and tried to make myself fit.
Now I’m more of whatever
and usually lost quite a bit.
Continue readingStory Behind the Post: A New Chance
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I was excited for another opportunity to write a Thanksgiving story. However, this fall I worked on two fairly big projects that both culminated the same weekend in November. The second. One finished with a big event on Friday and the other on Monday. Sharing all that to explain I was pretty busy all of October and into the first part of November and did not spend as much time on my 5-part short story yet again. But I always say that, don’t I? So, let me just jump in and share the inspiration for this story.
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