PRISMATIST

In September of 2025 the Indescribable Scribes, a prose and poetry writing group affiliated with the Astoria (Oregon) Writers Guild, sponsored a day long writing workshop. 

Ogling tourists and transitory travelers attempting to “find themselves” are drawn to Astoria.

Clinging to a cup of coffee from the Astoria Coffee Shop and a notebook as if they were life preservers, he makes his way through the Cargo showroom near Astoria, Oregon's waterfront. 

I have become a fearful woman, after becoming a frightened woman. 

It is very easy for folks my age to say hurtful things about older generations.

What thoughts I have for you tonight, Allen Ginsberg ...

The body of works that is the entirety of human writing serves as a sort of collective consciousness.

One of the more humbling realizations during this Trump administration is that it has forced me to confront how much I don’t know.

She watched in fascination as her older sister primped at the bathroom mirror ...,

Change won’t come in the winter; even though the sound of rain, like sharp nailed fingertips, drums with impatience on my roof.

In the family of an old friend, when the mom saw someone sitting on the arm of a chair or sofa, she would launch into a routine ...

Five of us, including the Chinese driver, were crammed into a Toyota land cruiser that bounced along on the vast Tibetan Plateau.

On 5 November 2008, John McCain conceded the presidential election to Senator Barack Obama with the following remarks. 

Open or empty I value your input and I honor your load,

This isn’t about an unexpected object in the home but an object in an unexpected place

With her cross-country move just 48 hours away, Sheila sensed her every nerve fraying, the pressure of time leaning heavily on her distracted mind.

In the current climate, outrage fatigue is a real likelihood and a mortal threat. 

This past February, I received my Canadian citizenship certificate.

This alphabet series began as a method to explore the kind of character study I was interested in pursuing.

Anya and Kerensa, my granddaughter, have been friends ever since they met as college freshman percussion students four years ago.