Stephen Metcalfe

 A new term has recently entered my lexicon.  Creative burnout is a lack of interest in the work and activities that have always been meaningful to you.  You doubt your ability to create anymore, you feel you’re no longer “good enough”, that you’ve lost whatever talent you once had.  You find yourself in a place

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I was reading this morning that polling shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five key elections states and I must say I was surprised.  Yes, I lean politically left and feel that Biden has done a good shop since taking office, and yes, I deplore Donald Trump and feel he has been a horrible

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The annual Christmas play It is 1981. A cold, grey kitchen.  A stove.  A fridge.  A stove with the oven door partly open to provide heat.  A table.  A single unlit Christmas candle on it. Bing Crosby’s How Lovely is Christmas is playing on the old radio. WAYNE and HORACE enter.  WAYNE is white and

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Our is a casual age though it’s impossible to take casually.  Sportswear has happened.    It’s beyond the ruins.  I am, if you don’t know, paraphrasing the English writer, D.H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley’s lover, who I doubt ever went out in anything but a coat and tie.  He might these days.  Casual has become

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I had a zoom meeting with the WA Book club in Austin Texas this last week. The club’s president, RoseBetty Williams was generous enough to share her post meeting thoughts. I thought I’d share as well. My first impression? Who wrote this book? At our WA Book Club meeting this past Wednesday, we had an

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Time it was.  And what a time it was.  It was a time of innocence. The words are from the song, Bookends, written by Paul Simon in 1968.  And they lead me to wonder of late, have we, as human beings, ever truly had a time of innocence?  A time when we felt free of

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