“I hoard images and sounds, and the people who are remembered in them, in journals and notebooks, and even the directories in my brain, hoping not to lose them.” Yesterday, Forever recounts a recent trip to a countryside band stand and a journey through time where the memories wait patiently to be relived in moments of nostalgic stardust.

“I came across the word erstwhile in something I was reading the other day and realized I had not seen it in a while. Had it, as a word, fulfilled its meaning?” — Erstwhile Eloquence explores the demise of the eloquent in a world that moves at the speed of fiber optics. For word lovers and rhetoricians, an ode to forgotten words.

I am given to understand that if you decide to take on something like a book, stick to what you know. Readers appreciate authenticity.—And sometimes a good dose of comfort food can cure writer’s block. In Authenticity w/ Clam Sauce, M. M. Kiehn explores the beginnings of discovering her love of writing and shares a tried and true recipe. Bon Appetite!

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” That’s what my dad always used to say. The Crimson Bomber is a look at how I sometimes approach new writing ideas with the same enthusiasm as finding a diamond in the rough at my local vintage shop.