#2 “Bob Dylan’s Dream” off his second album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963) *** Similar Feelings “I dreamed a dream that made me sad Concerning myself and the first few friends I had” I am not sure exactly the title of the poem, the author who wrote it, or where I was when I read [...]
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Week #2: A Year with Dylan
Posted in General Life, On Writing, tagged Bob Dylan, Free Wheelin, Week 2 on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Week #1: A Year with Dylan
Posted in General Life, On Writing, tagged Bob Dylan, Life, music, Year with Dylan on June 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
*Author’s note: A few years back I attempted this concept, but with little success. The idea was relatively simple, to listen to each of Bob Dylan’s albums in chronological order (as they were released), reflect, and then write about the whole experience. Truthfully, I am not going to stray far from the original idea, except [...]
250 and Remembering a Return
Posted in General Life, On Writing, tagged 250th blog post, Life, thoughts on January 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Almost three years ago I strolled down Court St. in Brooklyn, NY to spend the day at the Tea Lounge and use their free wifi to send off some resumes to various corporations in the hope of landing some summertime employment. It was my second summer to be living in New York, and in the [...]
Truth will come to light
Posted in General Life, On Writing on September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Don’t ask me why, but I have been in a Shakespeare mood lately. It probably comes from the sole poster that I have hanging up in my classroom, which is a picture of ol’ William Shakespeare himself and a group of all the various phrases that he came up with in his life. The mood [...]
Diary 29
Posted in General Life, On Writing, tagged Blogs, Diary, east nasty, New York City on April 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Through writing my own blog I have become accustomed to reading tons of others written ideas via the web. From various friends at East Nasty to others that I have found through comments left on different websites, I enjoy discovering new people and hearing their ideas in the first person. In a sense, these blogs [...]
On Writing: an update
Posted in On Writing on February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In my continuous quest to write and read about others writers, I stumbled across this article that features “Rules for Writing Fiction,” given by some of the biggest authors today. Jonathan Frazen offers up some pretty uplifting thoughts (he usually can be a little glum) by saying “You see more sitting still than chasing after.” [...]
Six-Word Biography
Posted in General Life, On Writing, tagged Concise, Hemingway, Six-Word Biography on February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
As I was listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR yesterday (yes that is what I do at work), I heard an interesting piece about Smith Magazine and their efforts to publish peoples’ six-word biographies. The history behind this legend is that Ernest Hemingway was once asked in a bar to write a story [...]
