Welcome to my web site. I want each person who visits to feel at home. Join me at my table,
sip on your cup of coffee (or whatever your beverage might be) and let us have a conversation. It does not matter how
long you have been writing. Each writer has struggles. Maybe we can learn from each other. I want to encourage
new and established writers in their struggle to create, and include pertinent
resources & links. I will also share my writings with others here,
my poetry as well as my prose. Writing is a lonely profession. In my own life usually there was at least one person who
encouraged me to keep on writing. Maybe, I can be that one person for you at this web site. Writers' egos
are very fragile and I do not know how many budding writers were destroyed because there was no one out there to encourage
them. And the criticism was too hard to take. Maybe I can give you that little nudge to keep you going.
I certainly will try.
Also, here you will find my
Poetry CD, with a title list and clips; some of my poems are printed out in full as well.
I want others to
understand writing is as natural as breathing: we all have material to draw upon. A valuable essay I wrote of
journal keeping is included, based on over forty years of keeping journals. I have included a
bibliography I created of resources for writers. All of these books have inspired me at one time or another. May some of them
do the same for you.
I write for it still matters. Wondrous things in the ordinary occur every
day and I record some of those things in the journals I have kept for over forty years. I just pay attention.
That is all I do. My poetry usually is generated from my entries. I stop to listen. It is as simple as that.
In my writing, my goal is always to be genuine and transparent. I realized many years ago that
was the only way I can be good as a writer. I believe in simplicity and clarity. I can transform the frustration
and absurdities of day-to-day life into 'hilarious rants' (my wife's words). I found out I like making people
laugh at readings. I throw in serious poems to keep the audience guessing. You can find this out first hand by
listening to the CD I made of my poetry -- just click on the titles on the CD page.
P.S. Often people
come up to me after readings I have given and admit, "I don't like poetry but..."
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