When I was a kid, we saved our money to buy ALBUMS, or TAPES, or CD’s and listened to all the songs a hundred times over. We knew the words, we read the liner notes and thought about the lyrics. We wondered about the musicians. We put the needle on the record and tried not to […]
Dear Mrs. Stevens by Kim Valzania
Dear Mrs. Stevens, who told me I could write You were old and you were mean and you hardly ever smiled – but you did sometimes Mrs. Stevens, and you told me I could write Your stiffly buttoned Oxford shirts, your mannish, leather Oxford shoes, your giant Oxford dictionary (“just look it up!”) you told me […]
To Be a Writer By Kim Valzania
To be a writer is to be a thinker, is to be a dreamer, is to be a procrastinator, is to be a humorist, is to be a sociologist, is to be opinionated, is to be silent, is to be wordy, is to be wrong sometimes, and is to hit the nail directly on the […]