Columns and Editorials

I want to take the words and time allotted me here to write a little bit about the other side of the writing game?publishing. There are a lot of sites on the Internet, and a lot of newsletters, fanzines, and even slick hardcover manuals to help you decide where to submit your work as a writer, explaining guidelines and print runs, genres and formats that will help you to find your way into print.

The rub is, we're born into a world where the two states of being are a craving for the things and situations that we feel will bring us satisfaction, and a variety of systems of belief hinged on atoning for those same things when we attain them. Most belief systems that last beyond the first generation begin to take on the aspect of the ravings of lunatics, on close inspection, and the further they range from sanity, the more fiercely their supporters cling to them and fight to enforce their tenets. The state of most spiritual

Have I said lately that I’m not politically correct?  In point of fact, I hate the term, the very idea of it, and the sickening way it has affected changes in our society.  I hate that the people who were going to grow up and change the world for the better, “do their own thing,” and promote “peace and love” are the very people most likely in this day and age to do exactly the opposite.

There are times when things shift deep inside, and things you might not think about as often as you should rise to the surface.  The catalyst can be something you hear - something you read, a piece of art, or just a moment in time that resonates in ways that drive away the deep dark clouds of not caring very much that seem to obscure most days.