Gimbling in the Wabe | The Words I Have Etched on My Body
In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing a weekly feature for the...
In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing a weekly feature for the...
Recently I've been reading What Makes This Book So Great, by Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Jo Walton. In...
I feel so blessed that I can "work" from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary...
Today at the dog park, one of the topics discussed by us "8:30 regulars" included high school graduations. It is,...
This week, I'm reposting one of my very favorite Gimblings - a little poem I wrote a few years ago...
In the first telling of the tale, I don't pick up the book at all. It is a very short...
Back in November 2012, I wrote my very first Gimbling in the Wabe. It was the brainchild of LitStack's Editor-in-Chief,...
I was watching television the other day when an ad came on informing me that for this Mother's Day, "smart...
Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm a library request addict. It used to be I would only request a few...
For the final Gimbling in the Wabe of this year's National Poetry Month, I am highlighting a poet who, to...
Edna St. Vincent Millay was already a published poet in her teen years, but it was at age nineteen when...
Poet and activist Warsan Shire April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of that I am stepping a bit...
It's April, which has been declared National Poetry Month; a celebration of poetry created in 1996 by the Academy of...
Wait....what? Did I just read what I just read? An "article" in my Facebook feed that was titled "What our...
Monday is "Be Nice to Josie Day." For me, it's not the first day of Spring, or the 20th of...
Poor Emma Watson! She shows some skin in a fashion photo shoot - yes, decidedly evocative skin- and suddenly she's...
Recently, I read Elan Mastai's novel All Our Wrong Todays, and in it he referenced cultural theorist Paul Virilio, who...
With all that's happening in the world today, with everything that deserves attention and activism, this diatribe of mine may...
The other day I was reading Michael Gibney's Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line, an engaging look at a...
I've been grappling with some big ideas lately, hoping to use them in this week's Gimbling in the Wabe, but...
I've never been good at drawing connections between things. I'm perfectly fine with Point A and Point B being distinct...
It's been a rough week and I've been at a loss on what to write, so I decided to look...
This translated political cartoon by Spanish artist JM Nieto simply resonates with me. It originally appeared on January 1...
Christmas for me always ends on January 5. We leave our holiday lights on through the night of the 5th,...
The "Best Books of 2016"? Pul-eeze. Unless one has a universally agreed-upon metric that can be applied to every single...
My father was a minister, and for many years, a highlight for me was the Christmas Eve services he held...
I tend to be one of those people who obsesses over gift giving. I don't get a chance to do...
It's that time of year again, when thoughts turn towards warm and cozy, hearth and home, and the giving of...
Recently I read an article where a man, who probably thought he was well meaning, attacked those who have started...
A Rant About Clickbait of All Shapes and Sizes on Facebook (and Other Social Media Platforms) * ~ * ~...
I don't normally do this for my Gimblings - linking to a site rather than writing my own essay. But...
In last week's 2nd Annual NerdCon: Stories convention, held at the Minneapolis Convention Center, I attended a panel discussion entitled...
... in which I jump right in from where I left off in my first installment of my thoughts on...
NOTE: This is written as if it were being told to an acquaintance, say, someone that I saw regularly at...
Okay, I have to admit, I find last week's announcement of the 2016 MacArthur Fellows (and their subsequent awarding of...
On Saturday, September 17, 2016, Canadian author W.P. (Bill) Kinsella died at age 81. The news didn't make a lot...
Words are amazing. They give voice to the essence of being human, they are how we share who we are,...
My daughter was looking over the syllabus from a college English class that she had just started, and she was...
Over the last few years I've been writing the "Literary Birthday" blurbs that appear Monday through Friday on the LitStack...
"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships." - Jorge Luis Borges...
Well, the honest answer to "what Michael Phelps and I have in common" is, practically nothing. He's a young, strong,...
On summer nights - well, on many nights, really - I end the day out on my front porch, in...
Sometimes when I read, it's like a lovely summer's day when the sun is shining but it's not too hot,...
Dang, it's hot. Too hot. I know you folks in Southern climates may well be guffawing at us Northerners now,...
(Due to this nasty thing known as a "deadline", this Gimbling in the Wabe is a repeat of one first...
Today, I plugged new headphones into my iPod and entered nirvana. That may seem somewhat dramatic, but trust me, it's...
Late last Sunday night, in the wake of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, I held my...
Last week, I was trolling around on the internet (as I am wont to do), and I came across an...
I hate June bugs. Yes, I realize "hate" is a powerful, laden word. I realize that it should not be...