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October was not quite the productive month that September had been. Even so, I managed to get past a big hump of inertia blocking progress on the non-fiction project. On the novel, I finished the rewrite of a chapter, but have been procrastinating around reading that towards doing the revision of that chapter. I did […]

Another year gone, another year closer to death. My life expectancy remains constant at 87 this year, so I guess I’m doing OK. Lots of uncertainty and change in my life and on the horizon so we’ll see how things change in the next 12 months, As of tomorrow, I will have outlived the following […]

Read at The Whistler for the Milwaukee Avenue Messenger issue launch event. Pretty good attendance overall, which was nice to see. Reading my poems, I found myself thinking that they were not too bad at all. I did have to duck out a little early since I had to help determine whether my son was as […]

OK, this is definitely a better month. Fewer spikes like last month where I got as high as five projects in a single day, but more consistency. The non-fiction project saw almost daily effort (with just a few days around the last weekend missed). Poetry keeps cutting in line for my attention, and minimal novel […]

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This poem was vaguely inspired by some of the handwritten photocopied flyers seen taped to telephone poles and the like. Of course having written a poem in homage to this, I’ve decided to make my very own sheet that you too can download, print and tape to telephone poles in your very own neighborhood. The […]

I feel like I’m definitely getting more in a writing groove, although still a bit scattered. I’ve changed my graph game up and instead of the pie chart, there’s now a stacked line chart which gives a better combined view of how much writing I did on a day by day basis and how often […]

Another of my Chicago Sonnet sequence. I was walking up Halsted after attending Mass at Our Lady of Mt Carmel on my way to a brunch at the St Francis Catholic Worker in Uptown and spotted a sign on the metal wall outside Sidetrack. Something about the sign reading, “Caution metal is hot” caught my […]

Having gotten relatively clear of my depression, I seem to be finally being a bit more productive. The new story is almost ready for workshopping and I hope to have revisions done later today or, worst case, tomorrow.  Bunches of rejections over the course of the month, but also one acceptance, my first of the […]