Archive | April 2012
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Thinking Beyond the Outside of the Box
A couple of weeks ago I published a post of malapropisms. At least that is what regular reader Steve Meitz tells me they are called (and then informed me, with tongue in cheek, that since I had already published, it was a mute point. I hope his joke isn’t falling on deaf ears). If you […]
The Loss of Innocence and Creativity
I have been a graphic designer and artist for over 30 years. I am a “seasoned and experienced professional.” There are days when I feel like I can design with my eyes closed. And there are other days where it looks like that is exactly what I have done. There is something to say for […]
Throwing You Some Rope, More or Less
A writer’s job is to tell a story. Words are the medium. A writer jabs his brush into his pallet of words and begins to paint a picture one word at a time. I feel that my first effort was a good one and is one that I am proud of, but one thing that […]
King Jamie
This world is full of creative people. Among other things, there are artists, musicians, writers (of course), dancers, singers, actors, composers, illustrators, and photographers. As I have mentioned in a previous post, my mother was an artist and her studio was the kitchen. So yes, I would include chefs and cooks on my list of […]
It’s a Doggy Dog World
How many times have you been singing a song and someone corrects you. As a kid I spent many years under the impression that Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (as in Jersey Boys) were singing “My eyes of torture” instead of “My eyes adored you.” Embarrassing stuff. In that same spirit, I came across […]
Dropping a Bomb
When I first told my father over lunch one day that I was writing an adult general fiction novel, he put his fork down, congratulated me on my brave new experiment and gave me the following sage advice. “Put some sex in it,” he said with a straight face. “People like a little sex in […]
A Pretty Nice Post
For a long time I have used MS Word as my word processing program, along with everyone else, right? Well, recently it got all glitchy on my Mac and caused more problems than it was worth. So I loaded the iWork suite of software, which is the Apple equivalent of MS Office. Page is Word’s […]
Write from Experience
We’ve all heard the advice to write about what you know. I spend countless hours a year commuting into and out of Washington DC. So here is a poem that takes that advice into account. The Orange Line The jostle and thrum Vibrates up through The soles and souls Of a thousand Individual stories as […]
