A shot in the dark in an effort to push for “Unity”
I reached out to Taylor Swift to consider a lyric I wrote in 2017. ...
Without a job and without a path forward
The plight of a long-time blogger and disabled individual. ...
Wordiness and a would-be song; “Cool Dude, Loose Mood”
Poetry and I are not strangers, the evidence is here on the site in the “Creative Writing” section and elsewhere if you look around. I’ve been...
Flailing Credence
A poem I wrote tied to lack of confidence and self-doubt....
“Unity (We the People)” – a would-be song of protest
Late this spring, curiosity and recollection started pushing in my head toward music and what was going on in the political and social spheres. This...
The plight of a newbie lyricist marketing a song demo
Even if they aren’t into country music, my friends have been impressed. I’ve already unveiled it but here it is, all over again! A nineteen-year...
Silence and song; the musical demo of “Slowly, Her Name Fades Away”
How does a deaf composer get the attention of the music industry? Think about that for a minute, would you? It happens to be a...
Q and A with Calgary Flames blogger Kent Wilson of FlamesNation
I got Kent Wilson from FlamesNation to participate in the hockey blogger Q and A that I’ve been casually conducting this month. Kent’s one of...
A hockey blogger Q and A with Lyle Richardson of Spectors Hockey
One of the routine areas that draws fans to the web to find out what they can are rumors. Some are made up, some are...
A hockey blogger Q and A with Laura Astorian of St. Louis Game Time
Continuing the Q & A series that was unveiled Wednesday, another of hockey bloggings assetss chimes in on life in covering not one but two teams...
At Loss to Moore
(Written with remorse and in memoriam. Rest in peace, Sir Roger Moore) At Loss to Moore More today is sad to see Somber sorrows and...
In Protest of the Trump Card (a poem in the “writing” seciton)
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An old story about an old man, may I introduce “Ignorant Bliss”
I’ve got a couple of short stories that were originally intended as submissions to print media in attempts of becoming a published author. Yet finding that...
Lyrical hopes and poetic dreams for the immediate future
I’ve been going through older poems that don’t appear on the site, I’ve been going through a collection of my works over the decades ....
Musical Demo: Picture Perfect (aka Picture Perfect Love Affair)
In the late 1990’s I was a poet and lyricist first and foremost. You can find some of the poetry I wrote and have written...
A long time hockey blogger steps aside
Perhaps you heard a hockey blogger quit covering the Tampa Bay Lightning for SB Nation. Maybe you heard, maybe you didn’t hear. You are on his blog at...
Creatively writing a fiction anecdote
Reddit has a pretty interesting creative writing subreddit. Someone just proposes a very generalized idea for a piece of creative writing and you’re allowed to...
Inspired by a picture
I’m only posting this on Stonegauge the site because I’ve discovered I placed a bit of my writing here that I don’t have hard copies of...
The weight of their worlds
Lay their hardships unto me Their doubts, their fears Their degradations Lay their weights upon my shoulders, Threats and harms Leave them be Steer them...
Disappearing poetry act explained
I decided to take a shot with some of my written works, stuff that has never been published beore (sans on this web site) and...
A word’s worth is subjective
Last night I started mucking around with a challenge that I had not partaken in for quite some time. Not a challenge, per se, but...
The journey of the write
When was the last time you sent a letter to someone? I don’t mean a card, I don’t mean paying a bill, I mean a...
Waiting for Her Word
It’s been months since I posted anything on my personal blog here. Where am I? Is this sitei site dead? I’m busy more often than...
Politics, religion, money and sports
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Sports journalism that hasn’t quite been “honest…and unmerciful”
For a very long time I’ve had problems with reading local newspaper reports about the local teams. It’d usually be Marc Topkin that’s rubbed me...
The Unpublished Works
Everyone likes seeing their name in print. Well, unless of course it’s trash tabloid-ism or an arrest warrant… But I’m not talking just-printed-on-paper but I...
This Bitter Month
Boring weekend with too much downtime and the end result is me posting a poem I meant to keep private. Yeah, Kate, you can get...
Uninspiring: Let Me In
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything rhyme-based. In fact, despite all the hurt and emptiness — I haven’t been inspired to write...
I miss Java Jungle
How many people out there have a neighborhood haunt? Someone where everyone knows your name, like the song says? Someplace you can go out to...
Slowly, Her Name Fades Away
Well, the daylight slips away, And I start to forget her name She loved me for such a long, long time Unlike any other lover...
The Write Stuff
For a couple of years I had my writing online on various extensions of this domain name. Basically it was one short story and about...
Poetry
Since my sophomore year in High School back in 1994 I’ve done my share of writing rhyming verse and what one may or may not...
Everyone loves getting mail
Not one of my better poems, was written in a bit of a rush the other night when I had this thought on my mind…...
On your mind
I don’t know how often other people do this but I always get curious about other people’s thoughts — thoughts involving me, thoughts involving others...
Note to self — if you gotta blog, blog here
You know, I get my thoughts out pretty well on here. It might be snipping about personal matters, it might be poetry, it might be...
Incomplete or not, here it comes…
I started writing this one months ago while someone was kvetching to me in the usual disrespectful “you’re there while I need you” manner and...
More poetry
On a creative tear. Moral Suicide What is a standard worth When you are Unhappy in life under it? What is a principle worth If...
H-L-Z
Untitled All I can do is watch you from Afar Your blonde hair Shifting with the breeze – Willow branches taunted by the Throes of...
Lost Inside
Seen my feelings lost inside forever Couldn’t we be good together? Girl, you are my everything, You’re all my wants and craves Lost inside the...
Creative Writing
A collection of creative writing — from prose to short stories — both on this site and published elsewhere on the web by me. Poetry...
I've Lost You Again Today
The conversation closed and the good Lord only knows When I’ll speak with you again You’re leaving today, winging ‘way on a plane And I’ve...
Writing re-assurance
I haven’t tried this in a long time – the last story I published in part on this blog was never competed (“Peter’s Problem” just...
Aspiration of Romance
Enchant me Rise up over me and engulf me Through your sensuality and softness With your intellect and your persona Show me the reason to...
Poem: “If It’s All The Same to You”
If it’s all the same to you I’m gonna’ talk a while See where the rhythm leads me Or if I can forget your smile...
Wordsmith
It’s happened a lot before, I start drawing conclusions on any situation that I’m told about and those conclusions — be they correct or not...
Sports MEdia Whoring
The NFL Draft begins todays and like usual there is a wide net of coverage all over the Internet and throughout the media… The St....
Mad props, yo
It always makes me feel a little better when I get a compliment on something I have written… Especially when it’s coming form a higher...
Enter the poet; “Socially Inept”
Read my poem, "Socially Inept" here....
For postierity
I wrote this poem with one person in mind and it’s odd that it has come true in every faccet. ….well, almost everything… until now....
Wedding Gift
So Josh and Michelle are getting hitched Sunday and now that I have some time to cram on the gift — I’m hitting a wall...