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I recently started an online Facebook community for writers called The Write Vintage. Each week, I’m posting prompts on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Tuesday is “Two Line Tuesday,” where writers come up with two quick lines of dialogue about the prompt. Wednesday is “Six Word Wednesday,” for the most micro of micro-fiction, a story in […]
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An Apology to Oatmeal I hated oatmeal.At least, I believed I did.Thinking of oatmeal made me shudder.People offering oatmeal made me gag.The idea was as repulsive as the food.Everything about it said:Bland.Sad.Bad. And then one day, in a very different summer,Than the one we are currently enduring,I was offered oatmeal again.This oatmeal was made with […]
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I wrote this piece many months ago inspired by a friend’s Facebook post highlighting her…let’s just say amusing…experiences with online dating and dating apps. It’s been through quite a few iterations by this point, but I really enjoy this particular version of the story, and I hope you will too. Thanks for reading! A Good […]
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April is National Poetry Month, and there’s often a “Poem-a-Day” challenge that goes along with it. 2019 is the first time I truly participated in it, and much like last year, this year I did most of the days. Unlike last year, I didn’t post them regularly here on my site, but now that we’re […]
Read MoreYesterday, a friend of mine forwarded me a tweet by Jessica Salfia that had gone viral. It was a piece of “found poetry” which, as the definition on Poets.org says, is the “literary equivalent of a collage.” Inspired by Salfia’s work, I decided to give the exercise a try myself this morning, taking the first […]
Read MoreSo, back in December of 2019 — which, by my count, was about six thousand years ago — I set out a few Pop Culture themed challenges for myself to complete in this new decade. One of them was to watch all of the Walt Disney Animated Classics that had a theatrical release — so, […]
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OH HEY, I HAVE A NEW ESSAY PUBLISHED. Let’s just get that very, very important bit o’ news out of the way. That’s right, my creative non-fiction/memoir essay titled “The Bell Rings, or Four Key Life Moments in a Taco Bell” has been included in Volume 2 of Taco Bell Quarterly. What is TBQ? How […]
Read MoreI played basketball when I was in middle school. I’ve attended exactly one NBA game and one Harlem Globetrotters game. I have never participated in March Madness bracket. I don’t even know if I could name more than a dozen pro-basketball teams (are there even more than a dozen? I assume so, but I’m not […]
Read MoreWTF Oscars. I shouldn’t be surprised at this point. I know that. And I know there are plenty of people out there who like to espouse the “just don’t care” “the Oscars are pointless anyways” “it doesn’t matter” mantras. But here’s the issue: the Oscars do still matter. Maybe they shouldn’t, but that’s a different […]
Read MoreMy Celebri-Reads Book Club has a LOT of exciting new books ahead of us now that 2020 has finally arrived. Here’s our list for the year: If those covers are a bit hard to read, here’s the list: Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters Karamo by Karamo Brown The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide by […]
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