Merry Christmas

Hello everyone. I hope that you're finding a way to stay cheerful and bright during what for us in the northern hemisphere is the darkest time of year. One of the things that I realized probably later in life than I should have is that the lights we put up on to decorate the outsides … Continue reading Merry Christmas →

Lizol in India

71. Lizol in India by K. MacMichael (poem number 71 from last year's poetry project) I never knew this cheerful yellow spray bottle this way all the ways it has been used since 1889 I just recently learned from a guy on youtube it is meant to be diluted before spraying to sanitize which I’ve … Continue reading Lizol in India →

Here are some Noir Films I Would Watch This Month

(except I saw them already this past year) 1. Strangers On a Train (1951) 2. The Killers (1946) 3. Chinatown (1974) – I finally re-watched this movie this year, with some reluctance, because it’s just… it’s just not classic noir. But I will acknowledge it’s very well done. 4. The Wrong Man (1956) 5. Sudden … Continue reading Here are some Noir Films I Would Watch This Month →

Books I Read (and recommend) in 2024

(from mid December 2023 up until Nov. 18th 2024, anyway.) I surrendered my volunteer reading position with Orca Literary Magazine this summer, and this has allowed me to read (or at least start to read) more published works this year than last, fifty-five including a few “read” as audiobooks as of the time I decided … Continue reading Books I Read (and recommend) in 2024 →

Poems that don’t quite make it

As I've mentioned ad nauseum at this point, I have over 365 poems (or poems that turned into short stories) which I wrote between September 2023 and September 2024, and I've been going through them and deciding which should seek "official" publication and which are either just so bad (or angry, or personal) they should … Continue reading Poems that don’t quite make it →