Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

The last time I checked, I wasn’t the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped… after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a...

Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.

No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam!

You were…are…what I heard. Every note.

A poem must be authentic. It could be flowery, it could have the most brilliant metaphor, it could be bursting with onomatopoeia and alliteration, assonance and consonance, hyperbole and paradox, from every end, it could...

They own a shop of exotic jam.

Inspiration doesn’t always come in chronological order.

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

official” bard were spent? Perhaps he would decide to retire in a lighthouse. For, surely, no place would be more fitting for the hero emeritus. He would gaze upon the glorious sea in recollection…guiding others...

The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine.

A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her…and that was it. The man who “loved to laugh” in Mary...