Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Mondays, September 27, 2021
Promote Yourself Monday
Promote Yourself Mondays, September 20, 2021
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Mondays, September 20, 2021
Promote Yourself Mondays, September 13, 2021
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Mondays, September 13, 2021
Promote Yourself Mondays, September 6, 2021
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Mondays, September 6, 2021
Promote Yourself Mondays, August 16, 2021
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the … Continue reading Promote Yourself Mondays, August 16, 2021
Stephen’s Sunday Chat 3/1/20: A Virtual Cafe Connects Writers Around the World, plus Gratitude, Challenges, Reviews, Workshops, Round Up, and a little Rilke
"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: … Continue reading Stephen’s Sunday Chat 3/1/20: A Virtual Cafe Connects Writers Around the World, plus Gratitude, Challenges, Reviews, Workshops, Round Up, and a little Rilke
Stephen’s Sunday Chat 2/23/20: Evolution of a Cafe, Promoting Podcasts, Writing Workshops, and Veterans.
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: ‘Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.’ Annie Dillard from The Writing Life page 79. Write, friends, write, friends, write and do not … Continue reading Stephen’s Sunday Chat 2/23/20: Evolution of a Cafe, Promoting Podcasts, Writing Workshops, and Veterans.
Wednesday Chat with Stephen, 2/12
Good evening! What a great week we have had here at the Cafe! Last week we saw a wonderful response to both the Tuesday Writing Challenge and Thursday's Promote a Poet and I only want to keep encouraging you to participate in both. This week's PYM was epic with over 200 comments! Next Monday, the … Continue reading Wednesday Chat with Stephen, 2/12
Salvation and Splinters – Michele Vecchitto
I discovered an inner rhythmthat summoned a vespertine breezeI sought illumination from screaming starlightas it exploded just before dawnMine was a wild, wild whisperas I sang a new song Change was imminent—like a single crackto my bones, thisMy branches weighedheavy till they surrenderedwith broken beauty Salvation amidst splinters,a serenade framed by the beat of old … Continue reading Salvation and Splinters – Michele Vecchitto
Dreaming of Home – Michele Vecchitto
Hope lives herein these remembered daysbeneath the sky, ever blue Borne of secondsof red poppies and silvery starshope lives here Faith in that beyond our meansbeyond our graspintertwined within changing minds Synchronicity, credence to the ephemeralthe Earth as She was and could beHope, hope lives here Such is my lullabyas I sing my way homenow … Continue reading Dreaming of Home – Michele Vecchitto