Whoa! Time really does keep on slipping, slipping, slipping Into the future. I haven’t posted to my blog for six years, and now it’s 2021 and I expect Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown may show up at my door any minute now. A lot can happen in six years, and it has. I’ve published three new books–The Hired Gun (Dark Matter Press, 2016), somewhere still in wind the tree is bending (Silver Bow Publishing, 2018), and footsteps in the garden (Cyberwit.net, 2021)–and written new long poems, won awards, published poems and short stories, and of course performed live and on recordings. Oh, and we’ve embarked on a years-long pandemic!

I won’t say more about the past six years. That might read like a dusty and boring library catalogue. Now that we’re living in Marty McFly’s future, let’s think about where we’ll go from here. The first thing, I think, is that we can take good care of ourselves and each other and get through this pandemic. How about the artists, the musicians, writers, actors, exhibiting painters and sculptors, and other artists? Let’s get “live” in public again so the artists can get back to work. And let’s support our artists by attending concerts, stage plays, and dance recitals. Let’s buy local artists, books, music, and paintings and photography. Let’s invite the magic made by artists back into our lives. Above all let’s get back to living our full and wonderful lives without pandemic restrictions.

That’s about it for now. Watch for a return to regular posts on this blog. I’ll be here, writing away!