Enrolling in a Wooden Boat Building Program
I haven’t been very active on my writing website, and for good reason. Back in 2020, with the world turned upside down, my family and I moved to Maine. Being away from the city and closer to nature was a necessity for me. I spent the year reading Thoreau, taking hikes, and thinking about what…
Connecticut and Androscoggin River Trip
I recently wrote an article that was published by Project Healing Water’s New England Region. The link and full text is below: Several Maine veterans of the PHWFF Augusta Chapter came together for a fly fishing weekend at Lopstick Lodge in Pittsburg, NH this August. Arriving Friday evening, the group found themselves in a row…
No One Can Win Here
Afghanistan. So much to process. I’ve written a piece about my thoughts regarding the withdrawal of Afghanistan that was recently published by CounterPunch. It can be read there or below. “No one can win here,” I found myself whispering as I looked at the distant mountain peaks surrounding Bagram Airfield. Single file out of the…
Oxford Brookes Veteran Poetry
I was recently interviewed for a British military radio program centered on the Oxford Brookes Veteran Poetry seminars. Linked below is an article that discusses veterans, poetry, and the work of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. Embedded within the article are clips from the radio interviews conducted with myself and other veteran participants: How Poetry…
Best of Medic in the Green Time
I met Marc Levy a few years ago while running the Salem State Veteran Writers Workshop. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran and world traveler as well as a published author of fiction and poetry. His writing, as well as his comments and critiques in those workshops were always thought provoking and showed a crystal…
Waiting Together: A Ten Minute Play
Two years ago I wrote a ten minute play about two Army veterans sitting in a VA Hospital waiting room. The play was well received and Salem State University hosted a staged reading of the play. The evening was a success, generating a lively conversation after the performance as well as inspiring the Salem State…
My teeth don’t chew on shrapnel
Today is V.E. Day – the day that commemorates the end of World War II, as such it was the day chosen for the release of a new Anthology: My Teeth Don’t Chew on Shrapnel. Last year, I had the honor of being invited to participate in a Veteran Poetry Workshop in Oxford, England hosted…
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