Written 05-08-2020 This morning, as I sit down to write a journal entry, I find myself wondering: why do I do this? It is a…
Written on 05-04-2020 As I open FB on the morning of May 4, I chuckle at the many Star Wars jokes (May the Fourth be…
Written on 4/26/2020 Sunday morning. I am enjoying the light outside my window. There is a young avocado tree in the neighbor’s yard whose small…
Written on 04-24-2020 In the normal order of things, time moves like a comet passing through the atmosphere at an unimaginable speed as we follow…
Written on 4-23-2020 Last night I had a nightmare. It didn’t start out as a nightmare. It started out quite beautifully. I was working with…
Written 04-21-20 Did I sleep last night? I can hardly tell. I feel as though I woke up at least half a dozen times. But…
Written 4/16/20 I am watching the flame of the candle in its glass cage flickering on my desk. Next to it, in a modified bottle…
Written 4/16/20 A few years ago, Evan Karp founded this website. I helped get it rolling. The idea was to go to literary events, capture…
What does it mean to have an artistic vocation? As I began writing this column, I googled the phrase and found an astonishing 5,330,000 results….
So, it’s been a while since I’ve written a Punk The Muse column. Easy, isn’t it, to slip away from regular work? You think you’re…