Category: Thoughts about writing

  • Road Tripping

    I recently completed a 2,700-mile roadtrip through 19 states to my ultimate destination–Rockland, Maine where I am spending two months. I left Montrose, Colorado, on Saturday, August 26, and spent the evening, night and most of the following day with my sons in Vallecito, CO. Then, I drove to Santa Fe, NM arriving in time…

  • Writing

    Writing

    Crayons on white walls Finger-paint on newsprint A voiceless child struggles to find The image The color Of her feelings Colored chalk on sidewalks Hangman, hopscotch She tries to connect Spray paint on buildings Frustrated youth Vandalized by her emotions Red ink on skin Across her wrist Marking blue vein Ashen pages— Voices in permanent…

  • Nobody reads what you write; why bother?

    Nobody reads what you write; why bother?

    It was a sunny August afternoon in 2012. I sat with a friend on a relatively empty Denver restaurant patio under a green awning. We drank terrible, sticky-sweet mojitos and talked. My friend, an older man, a cellist, and a retired Merrill Lynch Investment Banker, was planning a trip to Rome, Prague, and Paris. At…