"Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed." -- G. K. Chesterton Read Full Story
One sure way to tell that you are not a genious is to misspell the word genious every time you put fingers to keyboard. I have no delusions of genious, not any more than I have delusions of super powers, that is to say, I do have some. I wince to admit it but console myself by reasoning that all of us believe to some extent that somewhere buried deep inside us lives a genious, a super hero, an extraordinary being. Why else would such myths exist worldwide on such a large scale? My super... Read Full Story
Long, lengths of sky, I've spent fingering soft mast clouds of silks that calm the qualm; tremble now and triple. I am rooted down through, ground rises up to greet me; still, my hands ripple, reaching for that wish-blue wonder. You dig into my heart space and race, propelled through sky; my arms wave good goodbyes to the sharp-beaked winged thing. Read Full Story
• The journey there and back. • Winning the prize. • Winning or losing the loved one. • Loss and restoration. • The blessing becomes the curse. • Overcoming obstacles. • The wasteland restored. • Rising from the ashes. • The ugly duckling. • The emperor has no clothes. • Descent into the underworld. Read Full Story
"It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.... It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin." -Benjamin Elijah Mays Read Full Story
“It’s not personal.” If ever anyone says this to you, run, in a zigzag pattern so as to avoid the bullets whizzing toward your back. These words are not being uttered for your benefit. The only reason anyone ever says them is because it is personal. You know it. They know it. But they’re trying to convince themselves that whatever devastating deed they have done, or are about to do, doesn’t make them a bad person. Here’s the thing. “It’s not personal” is what mob types say to their mark... Read Full Story
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." - Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. (July 27, 1916 - December 2, 2007) Read Full Story
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. Read Full Story
Went for Chinese food for lunch today with Sean. He had the misfortune of receiving this fortune in his cookie: "Next time order the shrimp." My fortune, however, sounded more like a rule for fiction writing: "Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." True. True. Read Full Story
