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Virginia Woolf’s Last Letter to Her Husband
In March 1941, Virginia Woolf wrote this letter to her husband, Leonard. It would be the last letter to her beloved. On the 28th of the month, she committed suicide. Woolf suffered from severe...
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The Weirdness of Writers
I’m an old geezer so I can say whatever’s on my mind, right? Isn’t that how it works? Since I’m a writer, I can even make it all up. This is the weirdness of being a writer. Here are the details: We...
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The Unselfish Writer
A while back, I came across a comment that posed the question of selfishness as it applies to writing and writers. It was a bit of a two-parter that morphed around the subject. The first part of the...
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Modern Writers Rock!
I’m completely in awe of the modern writer. When I began my writing career dinosaurs were still roaming the earth. This was well before the age of computers. Longhand was the preferred way of...
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Bene et Opportune Exitum
Even the seemingly unsolvable mystery offers an answer, somewhere, somehow. Thank you for doing what was once believed to be impossible. Wrongly so. For your persistence, with boundless effort and not...
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The 27 Club
You don’t want to belong to The 27 Club. It’s very exclusive and its members are all dead. They all died at the age of 27, usually from unnatural causes, most from drug or alcohol abuse. The club is...
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Writers and Their Rejections
Most of the writers I’ve known over the decades had one goal in mind – publication. They reached for the gold standard of traditional publishing. Most of them never got there. It usually had little to...
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INTJ Holiday House Rules
A few house rules for the holiday season. This house, at least. It’s an annual tradition around these parts. If you’re an introvert, especially of the INTJ variety, you might want to give it some...
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Dramatis Personae
A number of unexpected characters have inexplicably waddled through this blog over its time. For those of you who are visually-inclined, here is the Cast of Characters in abbreviated form. Some were...
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Ice Pick Soup
Take a time journey to legendary Verona. Meet the Intuinoobs, Bubblers, spies, poets and catacomb crawlers. Return via a premier stage play in Newfoundland and have dinner in Kansas. Briefly step into...
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