Living-Listening-Loving: A Blogging Commitment

 This picture shows where I am sitting right now. It is the sitting room of my wonderful accommodations at The House of Two Urns in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. This is day 5 of my week long writer's residency/retreat. It has been peaceful and quiet, restful and refreshing.

I have written one blog, one magazine article (that was 'work' that I forgot to finish before I left), two posts for The Salvation Times and one new poem.Read the rest of "Living-Listening-Loving: A Blogging Comm" ...

homemade cream of tomato soup

It is a perfect tomato soup sorta day. What kind of day is that? Anytime your mind wanders to a period in your life when a happy memory is paired with a bowl of tomato soup. It may be a can of Campbell's soup or a made-from-scratch variety. For me, it is not the tomato soup made with water that was served in my junior high school cafeteria.Read the rest of "homemade cream of tomato soup" ...