wordsmith

I wonder how Shakespeare would feel about my hometown?  New continent, new climate, new millennium, more people than he’s ever seen in his life?  Same language.  He invented and used so many new words that there are plenty for us to still be using today, centuries later.  I

We have all either heard it said, or have said it ourselves, “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.” This sounds a bit like admitting that we don’t know much about our favorite drinking buddy; what he is like as a husband and father, or son,

Today, I am giving you an entire short story- a short short story. I wrote it many years ago and used some circumstances of my family’s life as plot.  The motivations and thoughts expressed by the characters, however, are a complete fabrication for the purposes of telling a