Aim of the Game The PDC3K is an opportunity to break down writer's block with a semi-structured poetry contest that uses images as cornerstones of verse. Add rhythm and rhyme to create a story from the

In my garden, a buzz in my pocket a text from Mary Jane on the plane "[ewe] [bug] me ..." 3 dots. Blank. 3 dots. Blank. I wait. 3 dots ... blank. I reply: "[?] do [eye] [bug] you??"

Poetic forms can be fun. I say this as a person who has, in the past, been intimidated by poetic forms. (“Oh, it’s a sonnet, is it? and that’s a villanelle, is it? How nice for you. Pretentious gits.

“There are no words” is four of them. Keep going. Try another word. Angry is a word. Justice is a word. So is injustice. So are grief, pity, brown, potato, enemy, kitten, opinion, and rage. Let another

Ethereum is becoming more popular as the ecosystem continually expands. More people are onboarding themselves, especially with the rising price of Ether (ETH) helping to spread the word. The problem is

If where I stumble is where my treasure is then my treasure in parenting   is in losing my shit late for schoolbasketballdoctorkarate in marriage   is in being now unmarried in business   is in OPUD in

Asymmetric concern like warfare, same is a game where disinvestment (tactic) allows a ghost to win with your no fucks given about my main battle tank or my chicken pot pie, as the case may be.

The current power down rules allow users to power down their STEEM at a rate of 1/13 per week. The first payment is made 7 days after the power down is started. What if users want to power down faster

The trees of Los Feliz include a jacaranda tree on Hillhurst Avenue (near Alcove, brunch minting money) whose trunk and main branches are pashmina'd in solar-powered LED Christmas mini lights. Behind the

I am launching a new series called "Tales from the crypto". We all know how crazy and exciting crypto and the crypto world can be. My goal with this series is to capture people's personal experiences

We had hoped that truth would set us free We believed “If you See Something Say Something” applied to things deadlier than misplaced luggage. Things like: the destruction of habitats, human and other;

This poem is called This Poem Is Called and it takes the form of a film I made with another poet and filmmaker, Greg Salman, up in the Angeles National Forest.  I love it up there. To me, making poetry

After 5 months of talking to "regular people" about Steemit, this is the question that I keep hearing: Which got me thinking... how could Steemit quickly meet the common expectation that

It is no surprise to anyone here that Steemit has had a user retention problem. I don't see this as a major issue, because I expect most of the major issues that are causing user retention problems will

Three fans tick tick hum Unsettled restless prickly Woollen cloying haze In South Africa we only have two seasons, summer and winter. Very often both in the same day. It  officially Spring. It was

First off, what is a haiku chase? A haiku chase is a series of haiku that take their first line from the last line of the haiku preceding it. You may play this game “solitaire” or with partners riffing

Some saved him, some helped him, some betrayed him. The generals and marshalls of Napoleon are the subject of this new series about the men Napoleon found along his way and who helped him (or not) to reach

A good investor knows to buy low and sell high. Emotional traders will panic and sell, right when it is the most opportune time to buy. There is a lot of fear, discord and panic in the Steemit community

Brexit and Trump have put racism to the forefront of my mind lately. As a survivor of racial violence, I have been heartened by shares of literature and videos discussing how to assist victims or disrupt

This is Part 6 in a series about my life as a Geek in Prison. Click my name to follow me and check out my blog for the Preamble and Parts 1-5. All names are changed to protect inmates privacy. This is