Writing
Writing about writing, autobiography, cross posting selected work from other places.
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Dave Morice died at peace in a West Branch nursing home on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. I did not know him in his later years, although everyone knew him as Dr. Alphabet. While writing my autobiography, I wrote about time I spent with him and other members of the Actualist Poetry Movement. Some of us… Read more
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I posted this photo on Bluesky and it got more than 900 likes. The timing must have been perfect. We are on the cusp of the Midwestern tomato harvest, which was what I tried to capture. Note there were 40 comments at the time of this screen shot. I read them all, and learned something… Read more
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In January I began a new journal using an inexpensive, spiral-bound notebook. It is a place to write without public eyes. I need that. The pages have been slow to fill, yet when I do write there, I find a place to express something personal. I am glad to be back in that habit. I… Read more
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I am reading Grace Paley’s collection of stories, Later the Same Day and was struck by how she moves the narratives without the types of digital anchors we often see in writing today. There are fewer invoked cultural objects and more force in narrative progression through her writing alone. Shouldn’t we always be interested in… Read more
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I began a personal journal in 1974, although that first one was stolen from me shortly after I arrived in France. The first entry in the next journal is dated Aug. 27, 1974 in Salisbury, England. After University, it seemed part of being an educated person was to keep a journal the way Samuel Pepys… Read more
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Wishing you peace as I take some time off. Read more
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As I’m typing, an unexpected visitor is approaching from the east. Read more
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I made no journal entry after seeing the Pablo Picasso retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art on June 4, 1980. It had a profound impact on me nonetheless. To see his work presented in mostly chronological order was astounding and relevant to my own creative endeavor. I had paused journaling while on… Read more
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With my spouse away for two weeks, and completion of garden planting, I cleaned the house for summer and have been considering what I want to accomplish next with my writing. The second volume of memoir is with early readers whose assignment was to finish it before the end of summer. Memoir-writing is on the… Read more
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds created a 14-member nuclear energy task force in January by executive order. They finished their initial work this week and now its recommendations will go to the governor, state lawmakers, and state agencies. In her Jan. 5, 2026 press release, Reynolds said, “With our strong foundation in manufacturing and energy innovation,… Read more
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