It sounds like things aren’t so bad in Japan, but that could also just be my limited view of the situation.

Why don’t you open a new account under another handle and start again?

You comment and now you’re under attack.

It would certainly be interesting to see how that played out, if you could make all the phones go away. There’s a municipality in Japan somewhere that passed an ordinance a few months back limiting residents

Thanks, Sam. It’s funny that you mention putting yourself on the page. After letting it sit on my shelf for sixteen years, I started working with “The Artist’s Way” at the start of the new year. That book

No. Fortunately, they were just at or under the age where they started recommending it, and for whatever reason, they didn’t make it mandatory for US citizens to be vaccinated when returning to the U.S.

That’s great. Apparently, haiku written in response to their haiku is also a thing, although I can’t remember the name for it. I could be wrong here, but I think haiku was born out of the renga, which

Well, with vicious emotions and arguments like, Do you want to be a grandma killer? It was hard not to fall in line. What was so hard about that was how perfectly it sat in the middle of what is right

Thank you for reading. Getting responses like yours are the greatest gift a creative person can get. There are haiku, haibun, and haiga. There is also something called renga, and another poem type called

I’m glad to hear that. Thank you.

Once upon a time, people could just sit on a bench and look around them, at the sky or the street, a space on the wall, and not be thought of as weird or crazy … But it wasn’t that long ago. It’s so eye

Much appreciated.

Wow. Thank you. Writing and sharing is such a funny thing. Why do we do it? I don’t know. Is it worth the time it takes (and sometimes heartache)? I don’t know. Lately, I’ve been subscribing more and more

Haibun is a very old art form. I won’t pretend to know all the details of it or its history, but I’m pretty sure it’s as old as haiku itself. @dbooster is the guy to ask about that. Two teenage boys, you’re

Unfortunately, the truth tellers will sound like lunatics and those who haven’t already had the experience themselves will play their part again … at some point. If the same thing starts happening again

Thanks. I’m always torn about adding the lead-ins because I want the poems to stand in their own, but in this blog post format, I’ve come to feel that the lead-ins are necessary. I hope they’re written

Those sudden trips to the past or to things associated with a life lived before moving abroad are generally powerful and often surreal. They make you realize how just how much you’ve done. The second half

You speak to how our thoughts drift even whilst busy with the day to day - into history, poetry, beauty - and death. These days, I feel like I’m spending a little too much time in the drift. Being present

You always make me wistful, pensive and weepy in the best possible way. That’s such a nice thing to say. Thank you!

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