Pumpkin and cinnamon scents fill store aisles of orange leaves and turkeys, marking the beginning of my favorite shopping season. Halloween cats, witches, and ghosts announce the next upcoming holiday, with Christmas décor soon taking over every available store shelf,
Ever since I can remember, I’ve been painfully aware of people’s listening skills, how most of the time they aren’t listening to a word I say. So I just stopped talking. As a child, I knew when my mom was
What does it mean to be a successful writer? This I ponder while I write, and write, and write. I would love nothing more than to quit my day job, make a living from my art (says every artist everywhere).
Years ago, my son and I sat down to watch American Ninja Warrior. We thought it would be like Wipeout, a show that gave us both giggles. American Ninja Warrior was oddly laughable in its seriousness of parkour and adult
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One of Sylvia Plath’s rejection slips said this: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation. Inspiring poets find melancholy in the rain, beauty in the rain, the water that is the lifeforce of existence.
