I wasn’t trying to make a statement by keeping my maiden surname, Redman, when I got married; I just felt it was my name, and I didn’t think I should have to change it. “How do you do that, keep your maiden name?” people would ask me. “You don’t do anything,” I told them. “It’s […]
“In a poem the word should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.” Marianne Moore I’ve logged in enough hours during my lifetime – fooling around with words, in search of just the right ones – to finally call myself a poet. For many years I would say only, […]
Sometimes writing is like juggling, like having apples and oranges in the air at the same time. You start to hear the next story before finishing the one you’re working on. Soon you have three or four going at the same time. ~ From Gravity, Muses Like Moonlight We tend to forget that writing […]
Death is real. It comes without warning. No one escapes it. Soon my body will be a corpse. ~ Buddhist passage When my brothers, Jim and Dan, died a month apart in 2001, the reality of impermanence hit me hard. I’ve been reading about death and contemplating it ever since. Although I’ve experienced firsthand how […]
I have another son, the mechanically-minded one who likes cars and 4-wheeling. He does plumbing, remodeling, and electrical work. He’s quieter than his older brother, the Asheville potter who loves the Red Sox, and so he doesn’t end up on my blog very often, which I’m sure suits him just fine. Generally, my younger son […]
~ Yesterday I got an e-mail from my friend, Fragments Fred, a blogger who has been mulling over the idea of a “blook” (a book drawn from blog entries), according to a recent post at “Fragments From Floyd.” He asked if I wanted to meet him and some out-of-town fellow bloggers at the local Café […]
