> What was/is the motivating factor that caused you to begin to write? (from a question originally posted on BWRC Collective) There were three main factors that caused me to start writing seriously as a form of expression: At the age of 7, I discovered a love for Art...
(Repost, originally published on the BGP site in Summer, 2007) NOTE: As of this writing, this blog entry is way over a month late. When I started writing it I knew it wasn’t going to be on time. I knew it had to be right, as well as next in the sequence or...
It’s a balmy 77 degrees this morning, expected to rocket into the 90s within a few hours. There’s alot going on in the area but chances are I’ll skip most of it. The heat, the crowds, and the hoopla seem to have much less appeal with each passing...
> Chivalry — pulling out chairs to seat woman, rising when she excuses > herself to the restroom, the art of clearing the way through a crowd > with one arm while gently cradling the woman with the other, among > other things — will go the way of the...
Late June, 1994. Virginia Beach. I’d been invited to a garden party, the kind where everyone seemed to know that Mozzarella goes with a Chianti Riserva, Gouda goes with a Riesling, and anyone that didn’t know at least had the foresight to memorize which...