The Art of Storytelling

Image: A view of Lake Lure from Chimney Rock State Park in North Carolina Last week I mentioned the terrible news out of Chimney Rock, NC...

Image - Red, September 26, 2024 A faithful companion is gone. Red was at least 16 years old, having spent the last ten years in my...

Image: A rose from our garden. Just about everyone knows the line "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," from Romeo and Juliet....

Image: I have no idea. I asked AI for an image based on 110. Tomorrow is Grandparents Day in Hallmark world. I've always disdained made...

Image: Cover photo of Love: A novel of grief and desire I promised last week that I would have exciting news to share about Love. Well,...

Image: Not my hands, not my typewriter. I've spent this summer working towards a new project. For me, that means jumping back and forth...

Image: The nearly full moon rising over pink clouds, August 16, 2024 Some days it feels like everyone is striving to become something...

Image: Melissa Etheridge in concert, August 3, 2024 Last week, Denise I and saw Melissa Etheridge and Jewel in concert at the Rose Music...

Image: Can you see the number in this image? Neither can I! I started wearing glasses when I was six. I was severely near-sighted, with...

Image: Two alleged ghosts (or folks wearing drapes on their heads.) One of the great joys of summer, in my childhood, was the opportunity...

Image: A swarm of honeybees rest in a tree Thursday evening, when I pulled into my driveway, I saw what looked like a laptop computer...

Image: Stock photo of police cruisers Last week I wrote about being an adult child of an alcoholic, from generations of alcoholics, and...

Image: a bear I am an adult child of an alcoholic. In fact, I come from generations of alcoholics. My father broke that cycle when he...

Image: The night sky over my backyard on May 10, 2024 Last night, the Northern Lights were visible over central Ohio and the view was...

Image: a creek (pronounced 'crick' in the Springfield, Ohio dialect) I just celebrated a birthday this week which gave me license to...

Image: Rooster taking his daily constitutional. Yes, that is how he pees. Have you ever had such a great day that you just wanted to do...

Image: My bookshelf which is not in my backyard I'm not a big believer in the Not In My Backyard movement, but sometimes you have to put...

Image: words I did not write As a writer, I do not believe in writer's block. Even with this blog, which is for me the hardest type of...

Image: Sometime in the 1960s. The unreliable narrator is a common trope in fiction. While it can be done very well, I often see it used...

Image: Dick Smith, sometime around 2012 Friday, March 22, would have been my dad's --Dick Smith's-- 89th birthday. He died in 2016. My...