The Par Bar

So, I’ve reached 100 followers! Thank you one and all for helping me reach this milestone. It’s amazing when I see how many countries my 100 followers live in. This is truly a global experience. (C’mon Sri Lanka get in the game). Reading and being read by so many cultures elevates our collective understanding of

Tik Bite

So, I caved in to the constant “shares” of TikTok videos and the family chatter (and when I say family I mean my daughter) and downloaded the TikTok app. Just what I need, yet another way to waste my time. I already spend an inordinate amount of my day checking my email, Facebook, Instagram, and

Par For The Course

So, when I started this blog it was a way to vent, rant, and generally just uncork some of the everyday pressures I was feeling in 2020. Hopefully in an amusing way. That was the spark. It has since morphed into an outlet not only for that but also a venue for my other writings,

Meta-Verse—a poem +

So, when the hell did this blog get all touchy feely and poem-centric? Not really in keeping with its moniker now is it? Well, I guess since Trump has been ousted I’m just feeling a bit more calm and happy. I’ll take it for now, knowing full well it won’t last. God knows there’s enough

Elemental—a (prompted) poem

So, I was surfing around the blogosphere and found a host of creative writing sites. Many of them will give you daily or weekly “prompts “ to jump start your writing process. A word. An idea. A sentence. Something to exercise that imagination muscle and get you going. Think of it as a personal trainer,

Checklist-a poem