Outing Myself

I've wrestled with doing this off and on since I launched this blog, but until now I simply couldn't bring myself to expose my poetry blog to my readers. The thing that is most beautiful about writing is how you get to mine your heart and the recesses of your brain to turn out stories for consumption. The thing that I struggle with is that the only way to be a good writer is to be a genuine writer. Do you have to tell everything about yourself, dredge out all the private details … no. But...