Kaze’s Life & Times
Show a Little Faith, There’s Magic in the Night
(I thought it was worth revisiting this piece, which I posted back in December 2010. Two reasons: The Boss has been back in the news lately with a new album and upcoming concert tour. And my students have this week … Read more
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”
A few weeks ago I shared a poem with you here called “I Knew a Woman,” by Theodore Roethke. I seem to be in my Roethke period. Whenever I read someone who says, better than I ever could, what I … Read more
How Did You Get to Be You?
Have you ever wondered how you got to be you? Why you love Frank Sinatra? Why you hate curry? Where did you get that sense of humor? Why are you bookish? So scared of water? So resentful of authority? How … Read more
A Thanks for Gordon Lightfoot
Here in Washington DC last week—the last week in January—the temperature hit 65 and the sky burned a fathomless blue. This could be just a harbinger of some climatological catastrophe in which the rivers dry up and the cows keel … Read more
“Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”
Kids like stories about ugly ducklings because, deep down, they all think they’re ugly ducklings. They like stories about Cinderella because they all think they have worth that’s gone unrecognized. They await a prince.
An Affinity with Hamlet
Two readers pick up the same work of fiction. One connects with it, the other doesn’t. All other things being equal, what explains the difference? For me, one question above all decides whether I connect with a work or do … Read more
TED THE CAT
Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kaze
Kaze is Washington DC area writing guru Steve Altman. The nickname is Japanese for “the wind.” Read more »
RasoirJ
Ras at Texas BBQ in DC, site of lunchtime chats with Kaze on the art and agony of writing. Ras is also known in some publishing circles as George Clack. Read more »