Excerpt: Promised Lands
Our last stop before Israel was the Dead Sea. We arrived on its bleak, treeless shores late on the warm afternoon…
Criticality 19
"Hello, and thank you for tuning in to another edition of Chip Schilders Special Report. I'm your host Chip…
Douglas Williams
Interview with Douglas Williams about his book 'Promised Lands: Growing Up Absurd in the 1950s and '60s.'
If it Looks and Sounds Like a Poem
I want to thank Picasso, Chagall, and all the other artists I partner with in my work. Most of us get a kind of…
Healing Hurting Warriors After Service
Physically, mentally, and emotionally wounded service men and women struggle in America, now more than any other…
Quality vs Quantity
Quality vs Quantity
The other morning we all witnessed that Angie had revamped her look: it looks savvy and…
Epiphany and Death
- This was written as a response to a challenge to write a dialogue only scene -
After The End 2
After The End 2
IT BEGINS!
How does a writer go about getting a manuscript read by an agent or editor after …
Life In The Big Top World
Big Top World
Life is a circus, some may say
As others want you to follow their way
You then perform or put…
A Half-Century without Papa
The old man was looking his age and more. He’d made his name as a hunter and adventurer. Now even a little wing…
Choice Resort Opens (Parody)
Choice Resort
JUAREZ, Mexico, Choice Resorts Mexico continues to bring exceptional and charming lodging options…
Sculpting the Heart Review
Sculpting the Heart Review
"I am an ordinary woman living in an extraordinary, imperfect world."This…
Fear Not Little One
A sixteen year old was sitting in front of me one day, after just giving birth to a child six weeks earlier, was…
The Cellar
I remember the staircase I followed down to our cellar - it is all historic these days but my memory remains - as…
Rap
I’m faster, faster, and faster than you
If you’ve said one bar I’ve said two
I’m twice as quick, you’re half the…