Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
This is the second of what was supposed to be a two part piece about my experience as a first time participant in the festival detailed below, but due to the richness of the experience and my own wordiness, it will in fact be the second of a three part piece, the last piece being [...]
Where it all Begins
In June of 2003, I wrote a piece explaining why I was going to title a book: Musings from the Midriff at Midlife, which became the first piece in the book. (A brief aside here: I used the underline method to signify my book title, but I wonder if that is [...]
This is the first of two separate posts detailing my experience as a first time participant in the Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival. The reader will note that the writing is nearly one month old and the reasons for it not having been posted earlier are a story that I doubt would ever [...]
My grand niece, Makenna Ranson, is her own “special effects” department; she is capable of producing in her observers innumerable shades of warmth, nostalgia, protectiveness, spellbound observation, affection, good humor, and all other manner of things when her aura fills a room. This writing is about one of her singular effects on me. I [...]