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I heart Dark Room

In Writing on 26 January 2008 with 2 comments

I began using Dark Room this morning and I am converted. I’ve always been lacking a bit in the attention span department, which you might know if you’ve ever had a real live conversation with me. I switch subjects faster than a race car driver switches lanes. Writing had become the chore of trying […]

Descriptions, Descriptions, Descriptions.

In Writing, books, writers on 24 January 2008 with no comments

I’ve been thinking a lot in terms of the descriptive lately with a heavy focus on people. Living in New York gives you the opportunity to be inspired again and again by the hundreds of people you pass daily. I watched the old man sitting across from me on my way into work and I […]

Writing: My Elusive Short Story.

In Writing on 22 January 2008 with no comments

Having been thinking about the things I want this next year and trying to set a few goals for writing since it seems that I’ve always wrote and never done anything with it, I had a revelation. I kept thinking how I’d like to write more short stories and submit more in the […]

The Eve

In Writing, poetry on 17 January 2008 with no comments

On the eve of things I have not known,A quarter past the first of confusion.I draw things beautifully in the sandand wait for them to come to fruition.
(I wake this morning with words on the tip of my tongues and creeping stealthy out of my closed eyelids. Some days I conduct a little chase and […]

We hold these truths

In Writing on 2 January 2008 with 1 comment

Sitting here thinking of all the things I knowand all the things I do not know.
The impossibility of ever knowing-and the fact that we try endlessly anyway.

Late Holiday Greetings (my oddest and most liked greeting)

In Writing, personal on 27 December 2007 with no comments

“you have received this, because you are in my life for areason…S(anta) does not need to know if you are good or if you are bad…your“presence” in my life, has been a gift that i could never haveasked forwhat wehave shared, opened, and/or returned, with or without areceipt…doesn’tmatter…”presence” is not a material thing…nor is there […]

Airplane Sunrise

In Writing, travel on 27 December 2007 with 1 comment

It was as if someone had taken a wildly orange paint and swiped it across the horizon of the still dark blue sky and the clouds were an ocean rising up to engulf us. There was never anything so beautiful, so tranquil, so fearful and terrible even as the moment the plane tipped its wing […]

Resolutions for Writers

In Writing, blogs, writers on 2 December 2007 with 1 comment

I’m tired, its late, and I’ve not much to say (it seems that no one really does much on the internet on Sunday anyhow). What I do have, after going through my weekly Sunday evening Google reader clean out is a few things that I found, that I’d like to share or direct you […]

More from The Times, Love Letters

In Writing, books on 1 November 2007 with 2 comments

The letter from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is my favorites so far. It read like an actual love letter with the sensibilities of a writer. Here is an excerpt discussing the importance of liking:
Yesterday, too, I realised that I have never told you how much I like you - this before your text, by the […]

Between me, you and the blank page.

In Writing, personal on 31 October 2007 with no comments

I’ve a new journal