writing

September 23, 2022

Too Many Voices

I needed some inspiration today. I haven’t been happy with my voice lately. There’s too much noise in my head and too many voices competing with each other for attention. It’s kind of like the shell game, my voice is the pea underneath one of the shells, and no matter...

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March 7, 2019

I was struck

I never know how this works to say he is a great man means what exactly? What makes one great? Not wars, at least not according to Yoda. “I was struck from the very beginning that there is a totally independent and new voice in writing.” Werner Herzog on Harmony...

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March 3, 2019

Channelling My Inner Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was a cool cat, at least in his prose. I adore him above all the other Beat Generation icons. His words speak directly to the soul of who I am. On the Road, a classic yes, but give me The Dharma Bums or the Book of Sketches to...

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December 9, 2018

The durable stuff

I stumbled upon the “stock and flow” conversation again today. Quite timely really as I’ve been reevaluating where and on what I spend my time on when I’m on the Net (actually as I wrote that last bit, I thought, hold on, the Net is always on…am I ever really...

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