Once upon a time there was a little girl who read the Cat in the Hat book and thought to herself "poetry rhymes and is funny and can tell a story with great pictures, and I shall make a poem that rhymes and is perhaps a little bit funny, but mostly the sounds at the … Continue reading Story Time Sunday on Monday: August 11th, 2014 — how poetry world got nicer
Story Time Sunday on Monday, August 4th 2014: Fusion Interludes – a story for adults
( a story I have been playing around with for a long time) “I am a teamster,” he said once to me. “I am deceptively strong. I can lift heavy boxes.” I had never wished for him. But then I saw him in a hallway, and then I saw him in a classroom. And … Continue reading Story Time Sunday on Monday, August 4th 2014: Fusion Interludes – a story for adults
Story Time Sunday, July 27th, 2014: power center
There’s a vortex there she said they said. Someone spoke at a ridiculous dinner where she wasn’t sure whether the main teller was the wife or the daughter of the man who first said the thing about Mount Shasta. Vortex she told me she told them – the daughter/wife and the man -- I don’t … Continue reading Story Time Sunday, July 27th, 2014: power center
Story Time Sunday, July 20th, 2014 — a silly story of some queens — appropriate for any age group
This story started with this quiz: Which famous king or queen are you? (Take the quiz and make up your own story and share it in the comments.) Once upon a time there were 7 Catherine the Greats. No, 8. "Let’s free the serfs," said a Catherine. "Let’s review the troops," said another. "Before we … Continue reading Story Time Sunday, July 20th, 2014 — a silly story of some queens — appropriate for any age group
Story Time Sunday on Monday — July 14th 2014 — a tiny tale with one slightly risqué item 2/3rds of the way through
Today I met a lady in my online women's support group who is a sword swallower. She is also a dermatologist, a juggler, a mother of 2 and an award winning pastry chef. Also a novelist. Do people like that make you feel insecure? Me too. But I’ve learned to do what my mom always … Continue reading Story Time Sunday on Monday — July 14th 2014 — a tiny tale with one slightly risqué item 2/3rds of the way through
Story Time Sunday — July 6th, 2014 — a flash fiction story about a bookstore reading
Once upon a time there was a man who said he was and indeed he WAS a literalist. This means, according to him, that he couldn’t see pictures in his head or understand metaphors. He couldn’t imagine abstract things, he said. “Well that’s not so weird,” I told him at the bookstore where we came … Continue reading Story Time Sunday — July 6th, 2014 — a flash fiction story about a bookstore reading
a tuesday poem
Friends, last night I spoke with a cancer survivor about the primal scream that is poetic utterance, that poetry -- however you define it -- can face the extreme. here's a modest contribution. unfinished poem today I started a poem about 3 boys who were murdered in a far away desert but I … Continue reading a tuesday poem
Sunday Special — 2 books worth reading, June 29th 2014
Dear Friends -- I've been busy helping a family member with a medical situation. It's funny how the medical and its attendant woes -- pain, waiting, garages, doctors, logistics, pharmacies, -- silences a person, makes a person quiet in the face of something that words can't solve or change. So, I've been feeling quiet lately. … Continue reading Sunday Special — 2 books worth reading, June 29th 2014
Magically Real interrupted, briefly
Dear Friends -- We've had a slight hitch in the proceedings as I tend to an under-the-weather family member and go through 5 stacks of mail. As we deal, here's a clip from THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZuLD1u_K4
midweek magically marvelous interview: June 18th 2014
Dear Friends -- Apeiron Review was not only nice enough to publish my lyric essay on converting to Judaism last spring (Issue 3), they were also nice enough to invite me to be the illuminated object of their Author Spotlight for this June. Here is a link to the interview! Please take a look. And … Continue reading midweek magically marvelous interview: June 18th 2014
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 