September is a lovely month, but one that hangs on to the past as time drags it forward. Autumn is creeping in, teasing the world outside my window with dark, brisk mornings, long-sleeved arms, and dry brown leaves that skitter across the sidewalks. Yes, the trees are still full and green. The sky is still…
Category: Short Pieces and Good Stuff
KMBM: Posters!
Posters—the wallpaper of our youth. Whether purchased in rolled tubes from the local Wal-Mart or liberated from the center of Tiger Beat magazine, attaching images of favorite bands, actors, and movies to bedroom walls with thumbtacks or scotch tape is a time-honored tradition. An impermanent rite of passage from adolescent to young adult, you might…
Awful Poetry: We’ve All Gotta Start Somewhere
I recently came across my first “journal” while looking for an old photo in my memory trunk. I can’t recall exactly when I acquired the journal, but I *believe* it was a Christmas gift from a family member, given sometime during my elementary school years. Perhaps sixth grade. I’m approximating the time based on the…
Labor Day 2019
To All Those Who… …Hold down steady nine-to-five, Monday through Friday jobs with no weekends. …Work shifts so complicated, they must follow a schedule to keep them straight. …Toil away at highly physical yet mentally monotonous jobs. …Drudge through desk-bound yet cerebrally complicated jobs.
Monthly Mental Munchies: August 2019
August is a month of contradictions. One filled with both anticipation and anxiousness, in part I’d suppose because it’s my birth month. Each birthday presents me with another year in the past, filled with many things I was unable to do, and one ahead of me, rich with the promise of what I still might…
KMBM: Bookmarks!
If one were to subscribe to the motto printed on one of my teen daughter’s shirts, they’d know that bookmarks are for quitters. Oh yes, only those faint of eye and encumbered by a weak need for sleep would employ bookmarks in their reading journeys. They’re like little paperboard crutches for those not strong enough…
Monthly Mental Munchies: July 2019
Freaking July. It’s the month voted most likely to make everyone miserable with sweltering heat, flash floods, and soppy humidity. And did you know that four out of five mosquitos recommend July as the best month for humans to walk around outside with lots of exposed skin? It’s true. And of course, beaches are taking…
KMBM: Mugs!
If you polled writers around the world and asked what one thing they consider indispensable to their craft, their answers would be as varied as the genres in which they write. For some, it might be a reliable laptop or simple pen and paper. For others, it could be writing courses or even time and…
Why A Writer is Like a Raven Desk
Why is a writer like a raven desk? I don’t have an answer to that–sorry. Yet, when I think of quotes about writing, this (flipped version of a) line from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is one of the first to pop into my mind, which is peculiar as it has nothing to do with writing itself. Hmm .…
Monthly Mental Munchies: June 2019
June has been a good month to be outside. It’s like being in a virtual reality game, except you wear sunglasses instead of VR goggles, everything around you is real, and wild mushrooms are the opposite of power ups. Of course, more outdoors means less indoors, which means less screen and book time. Still, I…
D.M. Domosea 