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I had a reader suggest that I write a backstory to accompany each of my poems—to give some insight into how and why and when I wrote it.  So here’s the backstory for “Octaves,” the poem I wrote and am sharing with you tonight. Last week, my mom sat down at her baby grand piano and played a song for …

My brother disowned me last night.  He walked into a room and gave me the Vulcan salute.  I tried to do it back but couldn’t make my fingers work that way.  Adam shook his head and said, “Seriously?  Dude.  You are not my kin.” To say Adam loves Star Trek would be an understatement.  He knows every plot line, character, …

Ready for church. I’m on the right. Ready for church. I’m on the right. I don’t remember my life before I believed in God.  Believing in a great big God and a Jesus who loved me was easy—I didn’t know any other way to believe.  I went to a Christian school, went to church every Sunday, and was raised in …

I recently asked you, my wonderful readers, to give me a topic to write about.  I told you that no matter what you suggested, I’d write about it.  And you responded in emails, messages, and on social media.  One of you suggested that I write about crickets.  So I’m tackling that topic first.  Because it’s the worst. I mentioned in …

Since Monty and I were sixteen, I never doubted that we were meant to be together.  But there was one moment during our senior year of high school when I had a terrible thought: Can I tolerate this person for the rest of my life?  Can he tolerate me? We were at the food court in the mall, eating Chik-Fil-A …

I had a completely different blog post in mind for today.  But I woke up this morning with a song going through my head, and try though I might to silence it, I keep hearing it.  The song, sung by Pink Floyd, is called “Comfortably Numb.”  Here’s part of the lyrics (written by Roger Waters): On a day when I …