Christopher Bowen's Blog, page 4
August 6, 2019
Alaska & DFW
Late the other night I researched small resorts and restaurants on the coast of Juneau in Alaska. I’m sure their peak tourism season is coming to a close. I researched apartments and furnished rooms on Craigslist and did a meta search of flight prices one way. I spent a good forty-five minutes doing this. A...
July 27, 2019
Being Humble & Young Again
So, there’s this nineteen year old kid at work who has said time and time again in the kitchen to everyone that he wants to be a chef someday, an executive chef he mentioned to me today, by the time he is twenty-four or twenty-five. I had asked him what his long-term goal was. His...
Being Humble, Young Again, & The Unused Palette.
So, there’s this nineteen year old kid at work who has said time and time again in the kitchen to everyone that he wants to be a chef someday, an executive chef he mentioned to me today, by the time he is twenty-four or twenty-five. I had asked him what his long-term goal was. His...
July 20, 2019
Rewind: “Song for Zula” Phosphorescent
NPR’s take on the song…
July 13, 2019
Where does your love lay?
I used to think, maybe the last ten or fifteen years, that the strength of my love lay in being the protector, the defender. That I was here to protect the people in my life that I love, at all costs whatsoever. And it’s not that the particular role or thought has diminished, but that...
June 30, 2019
Living By Other People’s Standards
I’m exhausted sometimes of trying to live by other people’s standards, the ways they think I should live, do, and feel. There’s an old proverb about a man who when young took all the criticism and judgement of himself to heart, thinking life was a game of who was faster or better or smarter. Then...
June 17, 2019
Digging Through with Gessy Alvarez
One of my spoken word stories is going to be featured on Gessy Alvarez’s Digging Through podcast towards the end of the June. I submitted my short story from my previous chapbook as well as a copy of my novella, so it may make an appearance in there somewhere, too. Digging Press is also open...
May 13, 2019
Synergia Ranch, New Mexico
It goes on and on…
April 15, 2019
April 8, 2019
Poetry Rodeo this Month
I’m participating in this event in Denver April 20th. The 31st annual Poetry Rodeo is an all day celebration of local writing and talent at the Mercury Cafe. Plus, some more pictures.
