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NaPoWriMo 2025 - Day 1

There will be an associated podcast recording once I have enough time to re-listen to it for any audio issues and publish it. It better explains the context of how the poem came to me and offers an unpolished first performance of it. For now, I wrote a day 1

A photo by Will Shirley of an elephant on what appears to be a human-made pathway

In Search of

Reflections

A photo by Will Shirley of an elephant on what appears to be a human-made pathway

In Search of

No matter how many iterations of writing classes I took, they never failed to emphasize the importance of a thesis statement. I always struggled with that because when I first begin writing, I never know the piece's purpose. Maybe it's taboo to admit that. It doesn&

Poetry

NaPoWriMo 2025 - Day 1

There will be an associated podcast recording once I have enough time to re-listen to it for any audio issues and publish it. It better explains the context of how the poem came to me and offers an unpolished first performance of it. For now, I wrote a day 1