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.)
What Is Your Role?
This is a difficult post to write, because the readers of Net Cotton Content were quite divided over the recent election. People across the political spectrum feel labeled and dismissed. They are disgusted, as well as angry, sad, glad, afraid, and...
Good Mourning.
"...you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." — Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1954) To all who are disappointed by the outcome of the election (no matter who you voted for), I am grievously disappointed. (To those of you who are glad about...
My Last Post Before The Election
I am heartbroken to learn who among those I know have voted for Donald Trump. And I am sad to learn who among those I know aren't voting at all. What Do I Think?Since I turned 18 in 1978, I've always wished for better candidates. I've...
The Green Fields of the Mind
[Longtime readers of Net Cotton Content will recall this seasonal post. With the end of another baseball season, "it must follow, as the night the day." Feel free to skip the next few paragraphs. But read, below, "The Green Fields of the Mind."] When I began at Yale,...
SMARTY Goal Setting (2017 edition)
Here's an annual message in a bottle: it's time to set goals for next year! I'm not the goal-setting type.I prefer to wing it. That's my strength. When it comes to setting goals, I'm a wingnut. Goals seem too limiting. Or too ambitious. Or...
On Apology and Forgiveness
We all know the structure of a disingenuous apology. "I'm sorry if you were hurt." "I'm sorry you feel that way." These are ways of saying either "I'm not sorry." Or "If I'm sorry, I'm not apologizing...
“…What I’m Talking About.”
This is not what I'm talking about. Well, to be honest, it is a story I've told several times lately. I do it for the cheap laugh. And I'd like to write it here and retire the story. (That is the mission of Net Cotton Content.) Las Vegas, of...
Onweird!
This is a message about forward motion. Let's expect it. Onweird. We're moving onward, but -- because of unpredictability and uncertainty -- it's always weird. So: "onweird." I'm thinking about moving forward chronologically,...
No Talking
I have a long relationship with talking. I've been talking since I was little. As a teenager, when I would ask, "May I please be excused?" from the dinner table, the answer was routinely, "Not yet." My parents would hold me hostage. I...
Don’t Tell Me
Last night, a friend sent me a text message. We've known each other for about a decade. It's someone I admire as a creative role model. Because we met in the theatre, we might think we know each other more than we really do. (When you meet someone in theatre...
