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November 30, 2022
Poetry Challenge #272-John McRae's Legacy
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow…”The red poppy is the symbol of remembrance worn to honor fallen soldiers because of a poem written by John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and poet born on November 30, 1872.
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November 28, 2022
What Inspires Me? Plungers, Hooves & Boobies
Creativity is a quagmire of contradictions: “Follow the rules” “Learn the rules, then break them” “Make your own rules” “Rules are meant to be broken” “You didn’t follow the rules” “Been there done that”…
This is especially true of the picture book publishing world in which the two-dimensiona...
What Inspires Me? Museum of Broadway
There are museums for everything, right? Art museums, Sports museums, Train museums, Firefighter museums, Sex, Toy and Torture museums (different buildings in different cities). And yes, there is even the Museum of Everything. But… not quite everything!
...November 23, 2022
Poetry Challenge #271-As Defined By...poet Gayl Jones
This time, because it’s her birthday and we can, let’s celebrate the write, poet, activist whom author Calvin Baker called "The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know.”
Happy Birthday Gayl Jones!Gayl Jones has always known who she is and where she’s from. By seven, she was writin...
November 21, 2022
What Inspires Me? Amy Gallup
Amy Gallup isn’t a real person. And no, the photo below (same as the one in the preview) is not me—although, I must admit, that is what Covid hair me looked like—that’s Amy’s creator Jincy Willet.)
...November 19, 2022
Asher asks Norman "Do You Like Mario?"
Asher asks some good questions,...
November 16, 2022
Poetry Challenge #270-Achebe's Way
Chinua Achebe (born 11/16/1930) was a writer, poet, editor, and is called the founding father of African fiction. Born in eastern Nigeria, of the Igbo tribe, he often wrote about his native Nigeria and much of his works explore themes of race and heritage. Known more for his essays and novels...
November 14, 2022
What Inspires Me? Lighten the Load
Lately, I’ve been walking around lugging an extra 50 pounds…of baggage (OK, and of actually blubber, but that is not what this is about, yet.) This is about that extra baggage. The lists of must do-need to-overdue items on my task list. They are weighing me down. And so, yes, I do do them. Bu...
November 11, 2022
Fin Pal asks Norman "Are You Famous?"
Have you read the Norman the Go...
November 9, 2022
Poetry Challenge #269-With No Particular Place to Go
So what is it about those Russian writers of old? Was it something in the ice? the snow? … the vodka?
For example, because it’s his 204th birthday (Nov 9, 1818), let’s consider, Ivan Sergyevitch Turgenev . Ivan came from Russian nobility. He was born in Orel, more than a hundred miles south o...
