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A great Jimmy Webb song

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Advice

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Angelic Statue and Sunset Scenery by Ellie Burgin

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Hampshire, England, United KingdomCemetery Under the Cloudy Sky by Anna-Louise

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Let go, let go…

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Orwell on rewriting history

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Virginia Woolf on book banning

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Harran, Şanlıurfa, TurkeyTemple Ruins by Grafiker

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Still true

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Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan

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My book “Writing the Significant Soil” just placed first at the NFPW national awards ceremony in Cincinnati.

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https://www.nfpw.org/assets/docs/2023/2023%20Professional%20Contest%20Ceremony.pdf

Aerial View of the Ha Long Bay in Vietnam by Quang Nguyen Vinh

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Projection

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This fragile bit of colors migrates thousands of miles.

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At the Fredericksburg Independent Bookseller Festival with Lucas, a student from my 2019 Creative Writing class at Germanna Community College

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At the Fredericksburg Independent Bookseller Festival with Lucas, a student from my 2019 Creative Writing class at Germanna Community College

Fooling the smart fool

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Freedom is always at risk

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Illes Balears, PM, SpainSailboat on Body of Water during Sunset by Riccardo

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Happy Summer Solstice

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Juneteenth - Celebrate Freedom!

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Key West Lighthouse in Florida by Mikhail Nilov

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At the Fredericksburg Indepenent Book Festival

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Capri, Campania, ItalyRocky Mountain Beside the Ocean by Jordan Rothstein

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Join Stately, plump Buck Mulligan and the gang in celebrating

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Wordsworth’s analysis still applies, if not moreso

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Sea Waves Crashing on Shore during Sunset by KEHN HERMANO

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Writer to Writer

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Cliffside Village by Michael Block

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My books will be at the Riverside Writers’ table and I will be there in the morning.

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Water during Golden Hour by Sebastian Arie Voortman

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Red and Blue sharing at our bird feeder

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Jung on consciousness

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My poem "Parsing Moonlight" is included in the Spring 2023 issue of Aji Magazine.

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My poem “Parsing Moonlight” is included in the Spring 2023 issue of  Aji Magazine.  You can read it for free  HERE  and/or order a print copy  HERE .  My deepest appreciation to Editor-in-Chief, Erin O’Neill Armendarez, and the whole team for continuing to produce a great journal and for publishing my work. 

My poem "Parsing Moonlight" is included in the Spring 2023 issue of Aji Magazine.

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My poem "Parsing Moonlight" is included in the Spring 2023 issue of  Aji Magazine.  You can read it for free  HERE  and/or order a print copy  HERE .  My deepest appreciation to Editor-in-Chief, Erin O’Neill Armendarez, and the whole team for continuing to produce a great journal and for publishing my work. 

Montaigne teaches us perspective and humility

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Anger as hopeless optimism

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Black Hanging Bridge Surrounded by Green Forest Trees by Kaique Rocha

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27 years and counting

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Time-Lapse Photo Of Water During Daytime by James Wheeler

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Good envy makes you work harder. Bad envy causes you to want ill for others.

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Grand Canyon During Daytime by Ian Beckley

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Grayscale Photo of Gray Man Statue by Francesco Ungaro

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55 years ago Bobby Kennedy made his last speech before being assassinated

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Remembering D-Day Normandy 79 years ago

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Montaigne on Worry

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Photo of Forest by Ray Bilcliff

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“Why We Build the Wall” from Hadestown https://youtu.be/atT7AFTkjo4

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Green Pine Trees Covered With Fogs Under White Sky during Daytime by Lum3n

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Stephen Marche on writing as persistence

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Three of my poems will be included in an anthology to be published later this year by Thresh Press.

Three of my poems will be included in an anthology to be published later this year by Thresh Press.  The Power of the Feminine  will include: Anna’s Lament Bending to Shadows Nejma – First Passage

Three of my poems will be included in an anthology to be published later this year by Thresh Press.

 Three of my poems will be included in an anthology to be published later this year by Thresh Press.  The Power of the Feminine  will include: Anna's Lament Bending to Shadows Nejma - First Passage

The struggle is the way

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Truman on getting things done

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