Category Archives: Writing

Following Lovecraft

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Traveler

On a narrow tree-lined street in Brooklyn, at a residential corner a block away from a main thoroughfare, is a building where famed American writer of horror fiction H.P. Lovecraft resided for a short time in the mid-1920s.  This was … Continue reading →

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Sam

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Traveler

About 18 years ago, I felt inspired to write a strange little essay about Sam Shepard.  I don’t recall now why I composed it or what I had planned to do with it, if anything.  Ultimately, I did nothing with … Continue reading →

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More Musings on (Not) Writing

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Traveler

This post may not have a point to it, but that’s the point. I’ve been writing since I was a kid. Like many kids, I wrote stories — sometimes for school, sometimes just to amuse my siblings or to get … Continue reading →

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A Musing on the Writing Life and the Fit Life

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Traveler

In addition to being a Writer, I am a Fitness Enthusiast.  There are at least three obvious parallels between the disciplines of Exercise and Writing. 1. They both operate on momentum.  It is lore among some writers that Ernest Hemingway … Continue reading →

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