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The Creative Practitioner

You never know where your articles are going to be published. This one was a delightful surprise....

The Skinner and the Elephant

This flash of gentle horror was written to be a gift for someone with a Halloween birthday. It was published by Danse Macabre just in time....

Turning the Vessel

For a short time, I tried my hand at woodturning and some of the metaphors in this story come from that cursory knowledge. I am stunned by the exquisite parallels between turning wooden vessels and developing resilience in life....

Wake

I was honored to have this poem become part of an anthology dedicated to the work of Canadian paddler, poet, and artist Thom Thompson....

Quake Circle

Taslima Akhter’s heart-wrenching photo of the man and woman who clung to one another as they perished in the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory still moves me to tears. I wrote this poem in contemplation of the fragility of...