I love passionate writing about subjects I may or may not know anything about. It’s almost better if I don’t think I like the topic. It’s the passion that I love. I want to hear about it, and know why others like it. Sometimes I’m converted, and sometimes I’m confused. I want to understand. I […]
I get embarrassed about what I don’t know. And I think I should know everything. Talk about a recipe for failure. I shouldn’t think like this. I’m getting over it. Me be fallible. I just wrote about collective nouns (Appreciation #78). I started to call them proper nouns, and then plural nouns, and then compound […]
We use some of them. Pride of lions. Herd of elk. School of fish. Gaggle of geese. There are more. I have a book on my shelf at home that has survived several moves and cullings called An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton which is about collective nouns.
Steve gave it to me. […]
As a way of warming up, or getting inspired, or searching for something, I write lists. One of the lists I like to write is a list of my COMMUNICATION HEROES. Doing this helps remind me of what I am trying to do as a writer, and it reminds me of all the different ways […]
I am faithful in my marriage. Not in my reading. I feel no obligation to commit to finishing a book I’ve started. I have no moral qualms of starting and abandoning a book. I can get halfway in, and then stop. I check out stacks of books from the library and sometimes don’t go much […]
We’re putting together a map of Africa, listening to the soundtrack of Dave Grohl’s documentary “Sound City” on vinyl, and my daughter picks up the blue racquetballs I use to juggle. She picks them up and plays with them, and she says this:
I can’t quite juggle yet. But I try.
Quite. Yet. But I […]
Raise your 5 a.m. coffee to the difficult font, the random stranger, and the awkward move. Here’s a dash of mess, and why I like the word catalyst.
You should see my desk right now. It’s ridiculous. There is a story in the typewriter: “Ballerinas LOVE elk chili”, a microscope with an oak leaf, a […]
And the artful use of the sentence fragment.
I hope I didn’t react too strongly to my freshman English class today. Someone read a sentence that I wrote that started with the word and.
They said that I couldn’t do that. They then listed teacher’s names and how those teachers had punished them or red-inked […]
or SOMETHING YOU DON’T PARTICULARLY LIKE BEING THE CATALYST FOR SOMETHING YOU REALLY DO LIKE
Indirectly you have to appreciate it.
If you’re happy that you exist, you have to appreciate your parents. I love my parents. That’s not what I am thinking about. I am thinking about Willow Smith’s song “Whip My Hair.” It’s […]
When I think about talking to strangers, I think of two coffee shop conversations. One included a private rap concert, the other was an impassioned description of building designs with an aspiring architect.
He asked if he could show me something. I said, “Sure.” And this is when the private rap concert in the Cornelius […]
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