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KEEP GRINDING, WRITERS

August 14, 2023 by David Gillaspie

“Keep grinding’ is the message all writers tell themselves, but not out loud. Instead, what they say is their word count for the day. Maybe it’s a thousand, maybe more. The message they send is keep grinding.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: accolades, blog, blogger, Blogging, fiction, grinding, keep grinding, literary journals, MFA programs, nonfiction, novel, poetry, real writers, reassurance, short story, submission, the grind, work ethic, write, writing

FIRE CONTROL: HOW NOT TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE

October 25, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Fire control is not this man’s strong point. Not mine or my neighbor’s either. Two out of the three of us caught things on fire, and this guy’s next.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: art work, burning, burning house, fire, fire control, fire department, fire suppression, flames, flamethrower, poetry, vandalism, wild animals

SUPPLY CHAIN BLUES ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

February 7, 2020 by David Gillaspie

A supply chain brings the stuff, the things we can’t live without. Large and small, long and short, it’s stuff that is researched and designed, approved and produced, then boxed and shipped. A strong chain delivers quality on time; then there’s the other supply chains.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, American made, emotions, factories, logistics, made in America, Oregon, poetry, poets, Portland Oregon, supply, supply chain, sylvia plath, WILLAMETTE WRITERS

WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

January 24, 2019 by David Gillaspie

An English major joke goes like this: I like to write poetry, but I suck at writing poetry. So I wrote a short story that was worse than my poem. To fix the problem I wrote a novel and it’s the worst yet, and this explains the deluge of bad writing.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: destiny, hippies, hope, hpv, hpv16, MARRIAGE, medicine, novel, poetry, regrets, sex, sex cancer, short story, writer, writing

Humanities: Way Of Life Or Waste Of Time?

July 24, 2018 by David Gillaspie

What comes to mind when you hear the word Humanities, when a friend says they’re going to college to study Humanities? Ask around and get back to me. I did it and came up with a few examples. 1-What are humanities? 2-Aren’t those the hippopotamus cousins that live in the Florida […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: dylan thomas, empathy, florida, green fuse, hard science, humanities, manatees, mary tyler moore, poems, poetry, science, soft science, vote, writers

DESERT RAIN

January 6, 2016 by David Gillaspie

A poem in desert rain. Desert Rain From ice to sand the flight landed in coulds so thick the rain sounded like dirt shoveled against a window with a big shovel. All of my sun clothes stay packed until the missing weatherman crawls out of his hole and changes desert rains to dry desert plains

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: blogger poet, desert rain, ICE, poem, poetry, weather

KEEP GRINDING, WRITERS

FIRE CONTROL: HOW NOT TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE

SUPPLY CHAIN BLUES ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

Humanities: Way Of Life Or Waste Of Time?

DESERT RAIN

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KEEP GRINDING, WRITERS

FIRE CONTROL: HOW NOT TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE

SUPPLY CHAIN BLUES ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

Humanities: Way Of Life Or Waste Of Time?

DESERT RAIN

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