SHIMMERS IN THE DARKNESS

  I love color. It's the first thing I think about whenever we move to a new home (I wrote about that here ), and I tend to think...

Change is natural. Change is good. Change is what happens when you’re making other plans—is that it? When I was a kid, I used to rear...

  I've been away on vacation and so, did not have a poem prepared for this week. I decided to Google one, maybe something about sum...

Kobayashi Issa is one of Japan's most prolific poets; he left in his journals over twenty thousand "one-breath poems"—we kno...

  Two years ago, I was working on a new writing project, something undertaken just for fun and which was rapidly turning into a story ...