Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.