Storybook Shorts – The Convoy
Storybook Shorts photo fiction series Flash fiction for your inner child by Jeremy PodolskiFiled under: Storybook Shorts Tagged: fiction, flash fiction, highways, photo fiction, photos, storybook...
View ArticleIf you could read faster, would you?
Literature lessons from a bowl of chili I approach reading books much like cooking a batch of homemade chili. Chili tastes best when you allow the flavors to build and gain complexity. Sure, you can...
View ArticlePerspective frames what a reader sees
Authors use perspective to build mystery I don’t specifically blog about photography, but I was thinking this week about perspective and how it utterly influences the stories we tell. Whether or not...
View ArticleThe essay my mother wrote
Five years after her death, a 20-year old letter tells powerful story of a mother’s love I was rummaging this week in my Windows documents folder – my generation’s version of a cobwebbed attic –...
View ArticleFreshly Pressed: two days later
Reflections on the art of storytelling and the power of community Despite my best efforts to act like I’ve been there before, the truth is, I haven’t, so my brain is still processing the tremendous,...
View ArticleSara’s leaf
Poetry by Jeremy Podolski I saw you fall In the usual way Autumn offering. Ochre whisper. Tacit descent, Unremarkable but for its solitude Singular spirit Waltzing on unseen breezes Plummet and...
View ArticleStorytelling insight hatched from Eagle Cam
Learning to look beyond our line of sight Obsessed isn’t the right word, but my family has become, let’s say, enamored with the Eagle Cam. You probably know the one. Perched high in an aerie above...
View ArticleThe trouble with sleep
Not quite a poem #3 Absent the worry that wrestles a resting mind, sleep dances like an acrobat on a practiced path. No need for a safety net of dreams. He already knows where he will land –...
View ArticleFirst Communion
Haiku by Jeremy Podolski You wore only white; I must accept that this time may not be the last.Filed under: Poetry Tagged: bridal, bride, church, communion, daughters, fatherhood, first communion,...
View ArticleI hate these word crimes too, Al
In three minutes and forty-five seconds of pure genius, Weird Al Yankovic has managed to collect nearly all of my pet peeves as an editor and used the sharpest blade known to man (sarcasm) to belittle...
View ArticleWord of mouth
The art and value of live, personal storytelling Among the many ways to tell a story, the most primal is aloud and face-to-face. And among the infinite stories that can be told, perhaps the most...
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