A few weeks after returning from a week-long retreat in the Sierras with the Community of Writers in the summer of 2018, a retreat that tremendously improved both the quality and the quantity of my writing, I was suddenly inundated with family obligations. Those obligations were, for the most part, pleasant, but it was clear that they would keep me busy, full-time, for quite some time. It was also clear that the price of refusing would be, in terms of family relationships, extremely high. But the price of accepting them has also been very high: Over the next few months my writing slowed, then stopped altogether. Since then I have unable to write much of anything worth reading. Still, I have not wasted my time. I edited already-written poems and assembled the manuscript for my second book of poetry, Remodeling the Zen Master’s Kitchen! It was published this month by Kelsay Books. You can find it at the publisher’s website, https://kelsaybooks.com/products/remodeling-the-zen-master-s-kitchen?_pos=1&_sid=332c6fb4c&_ss=r or at Amazon. I’ve not yet had time to add the new book to this website. That may take me a while.
Don’t stop writing.