Poetry Month Trivia
In 1997, our two year old writers’ group was asked by the local library to host a community poetry reading during National Poetry Month (April) in participation with Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project. We were delighted, and students and faculty members from Harding University participated, as well as our members and the general public. The […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/04/2014
It’s Poetry Month!!! Dear Carl Sandburg… You wrote of fog on ‘little cat feet’ with a different breed in mind. The three young cats that stay with me have feet of a larger kind. At night my house is full of noise […]
The Power of Words
Have there been books, speeches, movies or television shows, or even poems that had a profound influence on your perception of something? Perhaps with the exception of a speech by a world leader, do you think the author of that work knew he or she would have such an influence? I’ve mentioned before a quotation […]
Just For Fun Friday 03/28/2014
I have a ‘day job’ in the transportation industry. Just For Fun, I started this list recently… Trucking is a lot like Writing….. …you hope you get to your destination without any trouble. Sometimes it’s a long and winding road! …diversion is just part of the job. …there are a lot of unscheduled stops. …just […]
Only Seven Plots?
Have you, like me, always heard there are only 7 stories in literature? Here’s the list I was given a long time ago – and I don’t know where it originated: Love Money Power Revenge Survival Glory Self-Awareness Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots gives us 700 pages of detailed explanation of a different set […]
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