Harbingers of Love

Flocks of peach-faced love birds fill the tree canopies around my neighborhood, but  only a pair or two ever visit the mesquite tree in my front yard. Until yesterday. I was packaging up my submission to a fiction contest, coincidentally called  “Looking for Love,” when I heard the squeaking...

Footnote re: Inspiration

Recently, I wrote a brief essay about inspiration for the next issue of I.T Post that’ll be out next month. I love writing short pieces for the same reason I love reading them. . .they’re like tasty snacks that whet the appetite. Snacks never bore me and always leave me...

Drawing Out Words

Sketching helps me write. Yesterday I sketched characters from a YA novel I’ve been sending out. I’ve always had a light hand, so these didn’t scan so well. Which begs the question: when the way you work (and, in this instance, work means doodle) isn’t compatible with the current...

Here’s What I’m Thinking

I’ve figured out how to get feeds from my blog, under our bootsoles, to show up in the sidebar of this site. For that blog, as the title suggests, I draw inspiration from the world I ramble through. I fancy myself like Walt Whitman, with way less free time and a...