The Mystery Spot

Trying to maintain it all. Some days are easier than others. Hope you are all as well as you can be. Writers Block has been holding online...

To say that I have written very little lately is an obvious understatement. I'm not even talking about updating this blog, but writing i...

It's been an active and at times exhausting summer. There's been travel to Buffalo and in my wife's case, Denver. Future travel ...

Samuel Beckett's New York City Cabdriver he looked like someone from a black and white horror movie but i needed the fare and stopped...

I am going to place A and will stay in place B with a view of place C I am not going to take into account that I stay in place D with no vi...

Revisionism, erasure, implied book burnings, not a fan. My Son hates ceiling fans, he has to be aware if they are on at all times. We have t...

Been ill most of the week, a lingering malaise of various internal organs. Each day I last about a half hour further before a quick fade out...

This is usually the post in which I copy and paste the list of what I read for the past year. This is going to be the first year I have not ...

It was not quite the viral explosion of Ceiling Cat or The Colored Dress, but less that 24 hours after Friday's Joe Biden post it becam...

When you do half assed work on a project for years, you cannot be upset when someone else beats you to the publishing press. Such is the cas...

Been working on gathering information and forms to renew my passport. Next year will be ten years that I’ve had one. An essential item to ha...

There were fireflies glowing by the old chicken coop in my Grandparent's backyard. We used to have barbecues there when the other tenant...

Very happy to announce that my poem "The Onramp from I-70 East to 315 North" has been published by Red Fez in their latest issue....

National Poetry Month is in full gear and I'm proceeding at my own pace. There is writing being done, in a group even! We're working...

Inhale/excrete I mean. Geez. Sometimes you have to merely listen to your colon to know to show that what's happening externally just i...

In case you missed it, I had a poem published in last Sunday's edition of The New Verse News. It's brought on what is, for me, a f...

2015 was not the most public year for me and poetry. I'd like to blow this year up socially as being constantly worn out made it difficu...

Last week I attended a poetry reading in which Nancy Kangas, one of my favorite poets, read. She also did her slide interpretations. Ther...

The dirt from my forearm has stained this desktop into a work patina Determined years of rest and sweat with the advancement of scroll ...

A few months back I was asked to take part in a local art project called Sign Your Art. This project spans over a good part of Columbus on s...