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On November 21, Eastern Kentucky University’s Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing program, Bluegrass Writers Studio, was named an Editor’s Choice for Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing programs by CreativeWritingEDU.org.https://www.creativewritingedu.org/…/best-creative…/… BestMastersDegrees.com also recently ranked Bluegrass Writers Studio #6 on its list of The Best Affordable Online Master’s Degrees in Creative Writing. https://www.bestmastersdegrees.com/…/affordable-online… These honors come just weeks […]

Yesterday evening at the Luigart Café in Lexington, I did an open-mic reading from my book with electric guitar accompaniment. From the number of people who wanted to talk to me afterward, I suspect it was one of my most powerful readings. Thank you, Laverne, for hosting the event, and thank you, Larry, for the […]

Fifty-seven years ago today, my father lost his life in Vietnam. During a televised broadcast of my father’s funeral, local WSB-TV news anchor Tom Brokaw told the world what the US government had told the media and my family: That my father “was killed when Communist guerrillas shot down a plane over South Vietnam.” Over […]

After doing some research at Rush Township Cemetery in southern Ohio, I attended another Woodsongs Artist Picnic gathering outside Portsmouth. While communing with several local talented artists, I read an essay based on what I learned that morning at the cemetery.

On what would have been my mother’s 95th birthday, today I can’t help but think she played a pivotal role in me wanting to be a writer and write an investigative memoir about her husband’s still classified death in Vietnam. My love of words started at an early age when she surrounded my siblings and […]

Today I attended what I hope is the first of many Woodsongs Artist Gatherings at the beautiful log home and farm of the multi-talented Michael Jonathon. There, we communed with two dozen other artists through our own art. I look forward to attending more of these in the future throughout the country.