My friend finds my writing clips

You know you’re good friends when somebody’s been going through their old stuff and finds your gold. Greg messaged me with the news that his boxes contained some of my old college newspaper clips. Holy cow. We attended junior college and then transferred to finish up our bachelor’s together way, way back. We worked on…

Freestyle writing challenge!

You may have seen this one going around BloggyVille. Needed: One egg timer, a yellow legal pad and a No. 2 yellow pencil. No. Good Golly, Miss Molly. I am stuck in the 70s some days. Lilrant tagged me for the Freestyle Writing Challenge after she had her way with the word work. I accepted…

There’s always room for good writing

Victoria Coit sent me a Facebook message of introduction, saying that she was a friend of Tina Hills and would like to speak to me about a project. Tina and her husband Ken were the owners of a restaurant in downtown Syracuse, I remembered, Sophistications, hosted jazz, very nice people. Victoria said she’s meet me…

So why did I think I needed to flap my trap?

So it was just four days ago that my blogging friend mewhoami posted her excellent piece titled “Whose Blog Is It Anyway?” If you click the link above, you’ll see that she wondered about folks who “hop around to various blogs, critique their writing styles and make suggestions on how they would have written the…

What say you about my depth, breadth and selection?

I had great hopes earlier this week when I clicked the clicks, filled out the blocks, and sent my request to take part in Blogging 201 away to the powers that be at WordPress. It’s coming up on 14 months since I started this blog. Blogging U, you say? OK, I’ll try it. Except they…

Funny, but I really love writing without a pen

This T-shirt’s message made me laugh out loud. Luckily, my dear wife Karen is accustomed to my shopping behavior, so she kept on eyeing her own interests in the fancy-dancy souvenir store in the toney Niagara Falls mall. So I had to point this particular message out, and grab my iPhone to capture the thought…