Christopher Bowen's Blog, page 8
November 22, 2015
My 2nd Only Baptism
It snowed in Cleveland last night, the first snow of the winter, in fact. And it was cold, cold, cold. But for some strange reason, my emotions and music this morning brought me back to this trailer for next year’s Eaux Claires festival. And, looking back at my eleven-hour road trip last summer, I have […]
November 20, 2015
Forthcoming
I whole-heartedly miss those days of diving into other peoples’ writing, fiction and poetry, caring about other authors’ works and their well-being as people—promoting, editing, putting together a piece of art. Although this Spring I’ll be taking some continuing education classes in the personal chef trade, as well as journalism, I will also be releasing […]
November 6, 2015
My Stable Atom
Just in case no one is, at least I’m here for me—to discover the ways in which I can or will change—physically, spiritually, mentally. It’s the reason I was created and meant to walk the earth anymore. And the longer I live, the more I concretely I begin to believe that. Let’s take a step […]
October 12, 2015
You’re a Winner.
I wonder if I am in the wrong end of the profession when it comes to writing or, simply, the wrong kind of writer. I was going over Entropy Mag’s list of places to submit for October/November and came across a press actually asking for a $45 reading fee today. These reading fees, for those […]
September 8, 2015
Playing the Victim
It came up again….playing the victim. I was having drinks with a couple of coworkers the other night and somehow we got on the subject of a certain worker and how they’d never be on top, they’d always need something, they’d always be below average and I brought it up again. Playing the victim. There’s […]
September 3, 2015
Time After Time
I often feel I am losing time, losing ground…second by second, day by day by lifetime. There is so much sadness in the world and what it loses to itself. Sometimes I become overcome by the sheer magnitude and beauty of it. I want to meet God and want to meet my grandmother and my friends […]
August 27, 2015
Talking to Ben About His New York Stories
Ben Tanzer is the author of the books Orphans, which won the 24th Annual Midwest Book Award in Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal and a Bronze medal in the Science Fiction category at the 2015 IPPY Awards, and Lost in Space, which received an Honorable Mention in the Chicago Writers Association 2014 Book Awards Traditional Non-Fiction category. He has […]
August 14, 2015
Leaving on a Jetplane
By this time tomorrow, I’ll be in Southern California. And what’s better than spending your time and money and life on experiences?? A friend on Facebook linked a story on how people who spend money on experiences are genuinely more happy than those who spend it on material things. And fortunately, I find myself doing […]
July 14, 2015
Eaux Claire, WI
Came close to getting a press pass for this festival. It’s headlined and developed by two of my dearest bands: The National & Bon Iver (Justin Vernon.) Justin Vernon’s musical development and backstory to him and it’s changes is an incredibly spiritual story set in the backwoods of Wisconsin in a cabin with some soul […]
June 25, 2015
The road it is ahead of us, the mirage of where we could be, drawing us here…
I went on a long car ride today and it cleared my mind of a lot of my life. I’m frustrated trying to be someone in life that I’m not, trying to build a career as a chef, my soul nagging and saying otherwise. In two months, I’m leaving for the West coast for a […]
