The funny thing about writing fiction, is that it’s fiction. Fiction is not real. Penned stories, blog postings, poems and commentary written by a fiction writer might be based upon someone else’s reality, or a thought, or the writer’s vivid and active imagination - embellished to meet the writer’s artistic prerogative when creating and choosing words. Words of fiction.  Fiction [...]

A couple years ago, I lost the fight for my cushy, high-paying, only-had-to-work 20 hours a week job to the war of economic down-turn circumstances. It sucked. I was out of work for almost year, trying to pick my life up and figure out what the fuck I was going to do. As my career went down the [...]

Twelve hours from now, and the prestigious red carpet walk will be well underway  for those west coast A-listers. In my salute to the film makers galla event here in Cleveland, EST, I’m usually wearing a ball gown and holding a microphone  in one hand, and a glass of champagne in the other, as I ask each guest  that attends our Ohio/ [...]

After a long arduous, and often tedious, as well as thankless day of work, I usually try to get my sweat on by strapping on my always eager-beaver, running shoes, or I try and plan to attend a hybrid Spin class of some sort. If excercise isn’t possible, because some nights I just get home too late, or [...]

An Open Letter To The City Of Cleveland Police Department
Dear Moral Claims Department,
I find it impossible to launch into my earnest complaint before explaining the situation surrounding the debacle in detail: 
First and foremost, I am an honest, hard-working, tax payer who has made living in the city of Cleveland her home for the past 11 years [...]

Another year goes by, while another year stands in front of me - beckoning me with all its grandiose temptation of being the best year ever.  And I find that I’m not so unlike Eve, biting into the  new year like forbiden fruit, but also swinging from the branches, shaking the whole tree and hollering at the top of my lungs into the promising [...]

10 years’ ago today I was working on East Ninth Street, in the Ohio Savings Bank building, downtown Cleveland. As I worked away on my computer, my boss poked her head around the corner with a shrill and fright in her voice, “I think something just happened to the World Trade Center!” …Oh, the sinking [...]

So, I’ve been home now for a couple of weeks’ after letting the tip of my nose gently graze over the equator.  I had journaled my thoughts randomly while I was on this trip, and originally I thought I would blog  several postings about this adventure…similar to what posted last year when I was in Kuala Lumpur, but  a day-in-and-day-out explanation just [...]

In less than two weeks’ I’ll be taking flight to explore a region of the world I’ve never seen before. I’m really starting to get excited about my trip. So much so that I have the obnoxiously, LARGE green suitcase out; already filled with what I’m taking  I think I’m taking on this trip. For the most part, when I travel out of [...]

So, I’m staring at the blinding whiteness of this new post webpage, while the fan upstairs blows the cooling night air into the sun-drenched house.  At the top, right navigation of this page are the words, ”Howdy, neve black.”  I nod my head and silently whisper, “howdy to you Word Press; it’s been awhile, eh, cowboy?” The cursor blinks; waiting patiently for [...]