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Back to the Drawing Board

So, I guess I’m going to be a tutor again. I’ve been inspired by the story of Dave Eggers & 826 National for years now, even visiting the Ann Arbor store. But with their seminars at $500, let alone the travel, I’ve opted for a more realistic approach. Years ago (and I may have blogged […]

Prayer

I’m not a praying man. I think there has only been two or three times in the last ten years that I have truly prayed with all my heart. But these last few years, I’ve truly been beginning to understand otherwise the impact of silence & listening. If you listen hard enough, I believe you […]

Like Geometry

I got some great line edits and reorganizing done tonight on a short chapbook manuscript of mine that reads like a memoir. This is aside from re-transcribing my novella and editing it while retyping. Excited to see where this leads. For a long time, I’ve felt “dry” on inspiration in writing, waiting for some outside […]

A Special Thank You…

To the following local, independent bookstores that have sent me letters of commitment for my application to the Alaskan Voices of the Wilderness retreat. Visible Voice Bookstore Mac’s Backs Bookstore Guide to Kulchur Bookstore  

Likely, the ending of this story…

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It’s with a heavy yet uplifted heart that we, rather I, am ceasing publication of chapbooks here at Burning River indefinitely. This comes on the delay of author Michael Bazzett’s The Unspoken Jokebook as well as a number of other factors. For a long time, I’ve wanted to spend more time on my own personal […]

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Happy New Year’s Eve…

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The last couple years I’ve done a New Year’s Eve post. This one’s a bit simple. Here’s to having clear hearts and minds in 2014 and see you in the coming year…

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How We Hunger

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A sit down this morning with my uncle over coffee made me come to the conclusion that it was about damn time I write and blog about something that has become increasingly important in my view of the world, of food service, and of humanity. Hunger. More than that, physical human hunger. Because we all […]

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Taking. Giving. Receiving.

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As I’ve entered the holiday season with so many other Americans, it has come to me quite clearly, two things: how desperately I need to travel the world and overseas and how destroyed our culture in this country has become. And how tortured our spirits as human beings are because of this. We are a country […]

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Some Reviews of We Were Giants

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Small Press Book Review, by Erin McKnight Flash Fiction Chronicles, by Andreé Robinson-Neal  

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