The Binary Biker

Rejections are a part of writing. Every would-be author who is serious about getting published has received more than one rejection. Some of the best writers of a our time have received not one, but hundreds of rejections. Madeline L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time, was turned down 29 times before she found a publisher. […]

I’m sitting here on the couch watching the Inauguration Ceremony for Obama and stumbling through random web pages. A few minutes ago I stumbled on a poem about Inauguration Day and Barack Obama. I read the poem. Aside from being forced in some verses, the words painfully and awkwardly shoved into the rhyme scheme to […]

A friend of mine recently blogged on solitude and being alone and I’ve been giving it some thought today as I work. I find that I often feel “detached” or slightly apart from the groups in which I participate and interact. Let’s face it, a good writer and bibliophile OBSERVES and doesn’t necessarily PARTICIPATE. I […]