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Drawing Myself Up from My Roots
Learning and Ignoring Negativity, Thirteen years later, I still use a simple electric dehydrator for some fruits and things, or no electricity at all, just air drying for herbs. But I also just used my new freeze dryer for the first time, and I did find it intimidating as usual, because I never even watched…
Keep readingUncut Zoom INTERVIEWS with Authors
Author, Karen Luke Jackson
Greenville SC, Poet Laureate, Glenis Redmond
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Change Your Point of View!
We can shift perspectives by moving our body, changing our thoughts, or geographically changing our physical…
Keep readingReflections on Barbie Land and the Real World
Truthfully, when I heard Barbie was being developed as a live-action movie, I was afraid she…
Keep readingBasketball, Bagoong and Bayanihan in Albany, Georgia
In Albany the Filipino community is holding a basketball tournament with teams from the local Filipino…
Keep readingPOETRY
Overheated Heart
I see the smoke in your car for a long time, the younger one says
They…
Keep readingLast Words in Jacksonville
What words would you crave? What would be the crowning sounds you long to hear as…
Keep readingNote to Tree
Note to TREE i didn’t know that i’m here because your roots brought me now you…
Keep readingJohn Coltrane Sunday Morning
Tony Robles recites poem, John Coltrane Sunday Morning in Hamlet, North Carolina, Birthplace of John Coltrane…
Keep readingWings of Memory
Liam felt rage and despair, twin giants rising in him. That’s it? You’re happy to sit on your ass and let me fix your problem, but it will take a note to remind you that…
Jose Case
Tony Robles talks with Jose Case, Main Street celebrity in Hendersonville, NC. In the video they talk about his bikes. In the audio file, Tony reads Jose a poem that he wrote about him, and…