Nov 18, 2025 from Improve Something Today Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.
Nov 07, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...
Nov 06, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 6 — Misheard Prayers DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, she misheard the ballad line:“They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray / And laid him on ...
Nov 05, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 5 — Inventory of What Remains DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda, this one lives in the material world, what’s left behind when someone leaves, w...
Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’
Nov 04, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...
Nov 04, 2025 from Silence Calling The Grand Sun On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while
Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW Holy Shame The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...
Nov 03, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 3 — Corrigenda Crown DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked lists with a repeating line that mutates and returns. A crown of seven short poems...
Nov 03, 2025 from Silence Calling Minimal Materialism Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less than what's required
Nov 02, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 2 — “Errata Sonnet” DAY 2. Errata SonnetWhat are errata? In publishing, an erratum (singular) or errata (list) is a set of post-print corrections bound in or issued separately. We start by mimicking the dry book-histo...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 1 — “Palimpsest of Self.” DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partially erased and rewritten over, leaving faint traces of the old—to describe the s...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria The No November Miracle: The First-Morning // The Audit of Beginnings 8.05AMThere’s a kind of hush that only the first morning of a new month understands. The sky hasn’t had its tea yet. The neighbourhood dogs are still negotiating with the sun. And I’m standing at m...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Opt-in devotion: keeping the providence, skipping the roster of reverence? I’ve been thinking a lot about where I stand with (which?) religion these days. I still believe there’s something: a supreme power, a force bigger than us. That hasn’t gone away. I tinker with the ...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? [Compilation] I came across this prompt on the internet: Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? What began as a small exercise unraveled into a month-long excavation of language, memory, ...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 31. The Last Halloween OctPoWriMo Day 31. Happy HalloweenHere we are, Halloween. Congratulations!! I hope you’ve felt inspired and had a lot of fun.Example Poem: “All Hallows Eve” by William Baer from Poems Dead and Unde...
Oct 30, 2025 from Chaotican Writer 7 New TTRPG Experiences from GameHole Con 2025 Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright Bard Games, Storytellers Forge, Need Games, and Critical Kit Ltd! The post 7 New...
Oct 30, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 30. monster over heart OctPoWriMo Day 30. Fear from Out of SpaceThis year, James Wyman of Burlington Writers Workshop is offering a poetry 101 course, for free. When he sent out the syllabus he recommended we read Perrin...
Oct 29, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 29. Who Does It Follow Next? OctPoWriMo Day 29. Other-worldly MonstersIf you read a lot of older poetry, you may notice that many poems didn’t have titles, only numbers, or were the same as the first or last line. These days, ...
Oct 29, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌱 the royal hotel - a movie review Note: this review contains spoilers.
