The word aridity is one I use as a synonym for what others call writer’s block. Aridity can mean “having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture” or “lacking in interest and life.” Perhaps I use the word because I grew up on the Colorado Desert of California, a place that truly seems “godforsaken.” Given a cloudburst … Continue reading Land of Little Rain
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When the Heart Waits Midway this way of life we're bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right road was wholly lost and gone... . It is so bitter it goes nigh to death. -- Dante I have felt stalled out on writing. If I believed in writer's block, … Continue reading RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PATH: NOW