Meatballs (my secret)
Making meatballs yourself is not very hardhalf of the meat should be pork for the lardand half should be beef, both ground up wellfive hundred grams total, that’s all I […]
Making meatballs yourself is not very hardhalf of the meat should be pork for the lardand half should be beef, both ground up wellfive hundred grams total, that’s all I […]
Winter-dusk, aglowtangerine yawnspilling on snowcovering lawns: in windows againcandles are litshowing the laneswhom it befit finding our homecomforting kissafter we’ve roamedrecover what’s missed Fragrance of snowindefinable, knownbut still it’s howtogether […]
Deep in Decemberclose to the edgeof the darkest dayand endless nights, remember, my friend,remember one single candlecan not be ignored, as a lighthouse, a beaconit leads you back homethrough winterthrough […]
Going off to bed withMozartjazzed with Benny’sclarinet, my mother’s record,lullaby of early teens,joyful, happy and warm,as after stringshis clarinettakes lead,so my thoughtsmay wanderinto dreamsand back againagain, againforgetting schoolyard bulliesas I’m […]
the snow clingingto his jacket melts and trickle instinctivelyonto his skin a waning moonstill shroudedis calling farewell as Novemberis dying in ice Today we are writing mirrored Cherita with Laura […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis
Now we see through a glass, darkly