Stories

we write stories in order to wear different hats

Hat Trips

I may be going to hell or heaven, I can’t decide, but at least I’ll be wearing a hat

I’ve searched the whole wide world for just the right hat.

Writer

And as it turns out, I do not take the trips. The trips take me.

Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Thoughts on art, creativity, and the writing life.

Just like the horse whisperer - but with more pages

We live to write and write to live ... professional writers talk about the craft and business of writing

everyday etymology

Bits of story, inspiration, and lost trains of thought

Crashing into ink-stained purgatory since 2012.

I like birds

"In which an attempt at poetic propensity is undertaken"

New Voices in Fiction, Nonfiction, Plays & Poetry

and other things that slip from grasp

Travel writing and long form non-fiction narrative from the road

Chris Murray

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.” J.R.R. Tolkien