Featured Artist: John Sheirer
Welcome author John Sheirer, a natural story-teller with a sparkling sense of humor. His short-story, Please Use Our Award-Winning Restrooms, is a delightfully playful tale of a burned-out writer approaching …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #24: The Forest, Meow Wolf, Santa Fe
Day 24 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is an escape from the pandemic and quarantine. We find ourselves inside the magical world of Meow Wolf Santa Fe, watching a group …
Quote for Today: Stephen Fry
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat – these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and …
Quote for Today: Karen Pryor
As he [Sir Malcolm Sargeant, conductor of the London Philharmonic] stood in waist deep in the shallows of Whaler’s Cove, the littler Spinners came drifting over, sleek and dainty, …
My Feathered Friends: Party Shoes and Nesting Shoes
Turning old shoes into pieces of art sounded like fun; I had no idea it would also be therapeutic. Last weekend’s Walk in My Shoes Soirée saw the debut of …
Quote for Today: Bashõ
Falling upon earth, Pure water spills from the cup Of the camellia. — Bashõ Image: The camellia’s tears, Katherine McDaniel, 2019
Quote for Today: Alexander Dumas-fils
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or …
Quote for Today: Marie Rutkoski
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and …
Quote for Today: Jack Gilbert
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this …