I think my day job in the corporate world is ripe fodder for some neat poetry. “Poetry for Business,” I call it, or perhaps the pithier “Business Poetry,” which sounds like an English elective they’d offer to Business Administration undergrads at a middle-tier East Coast liberal arts college, or maybe Bentley. Or Babson.
This list will be updated on an ongoing basis as new, great band names are discovered. You are welcome and encouraged to submit your own suggestions in the comments section!
The picture shows how I felt at the start of this year: exhausted, nestled warmly and comfortably in the sand, hiding under a blanket from the enormity of the sky and the sea…
From all of me to all of you, I hope you have a fantastic Christmas and/or holiday season, whatever you celebrate! The Quantum Cats and I are very cozy and figuring out our next moves. A little R&R is on the docket, and while I don’t expect to get a lot of words on the page over the next week, I am sure to do a lot of thinking, and that’s almost as important…right? Or maybe that’s my gift to myself! And now, I must return to an evening of Reindeer Games with the extended River family! By way of compensation, here’s a Christmas limerick: There once was a man with a sledIn December, he dressed all in redHe brought gifts to the goodLike a sled made of…
Today is a distracted sort of day, not only in and of itself, but in the culmination of so many distracted days in the last weeks and months. The world feels uneasy and uncertain…
I am consciously missing today’s publishing deadline for the first time since I started regular updates last year, and…mixed feelings.
Hey hey…little housekeeping update. I’ve done a good amount of site cleanup and maintenance, and while there’s always more to do, the site is “live” for all intents and purposes. There are links to my social profiles, everything is categorized, and I’ve created enough content that I can stick to a weekly update schedule (every Tuesday at 11 am eastern). As far as content, this site is the hub; I’ll publish some types of content (like video) on other platforms, but my intention is to have it all linked from here. For example, I’ll be doing readings of poetry as video content on TikTok, and I’ll add links to those performances on the blog posts (and I’ll flag them as such so you can find them). Speaking of…
