Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
Now Playing
The playwright and actor Sean Christopher Lewis has been in and out of town the past couple weeks. I've enjoyed sitting with him at Luck Bros. Coffee House every few days as he, Matt Slaybaugh and I write an updated version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas...
When In New York
From the Uh, Artie? inbox (the tray marked "travel and tourism"): Uh, Artie? Left field question: I'm bringing [Z.] over to NYC next month for the first time for a bit of dad/daughter wallet emptying. Any thoughts on activities for a 12-year-old outside...
Teamwork
Oh, I love these artists. What poise, beauty, talent. What joy! Duo Siqueira LimaFor more on the guitar duo of Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima, here is their website translated into English from the Portuguese. Here's what they can do on two guitars. (I couldn't...
Time To Upgrade?
There seem to be holidays for everything. For making resolutions, for giving thanks, for celebrating national independence, for giving gifts, for expressing communal pride, for asking forgiveness — for just about everything important. Add in birthdays, and there are...
How To Start Blogging
From the inbox of "Uh, Artie?" Uh, Artie?I'm wondering if you could help me. I know you are a professional so I don't ask lightly.I always enjoy reading your blog. I find your writings to be interesting, meaningful, and relevant. I've recently...
Into the Sun
Walking into the Grand Canyon is like going to the moon. Now, mind you, I've never been to the moon, but I've been near Lapland and that was like the moon. I'd twice before gazed into the Canyon (1976, 1988) from the South Rim, but looking at the Canyon from the rim...
Party This Saturday
It's been a big month for Available Light [Theatre]: We received our 501(c)3 recognition from the Internal Revenue Service, making all donations (retroactive to our organization) tax-deductible. We received a $5,000 Arts Innovation grant from the Ohio Arts...
On Writing About What I Saw
The trip west was a lot for me to handle. And seems more than I can write about.It's hard to have not written for nearly a month. Re-starting seems awkward.Did You Keep A Journal?Joe asked whether I wrote, even a sentence a day about what we were experiencing.No....
Gone (But Not Forgotten)
I'm on a three-week sabbatical — completely unplugged — until August 12th. No email. No phone. No Facebook. No Twitter. Alas, no Net Cotton Content. Just Stay Alive.I will return for you. If you want to receive an automatic email when I return to Net Cotton...
Hurry up and breathe!
A funny thing happened on the way to deliver a speech about breathing. The speech was scheduled for 10 a.m. in Cleveland (three hours away) and I was nervous about everything: getting there on time, and getting there with the speech finished and right. I hadn't...
