I turned 50 on October 1st of 2021. In celebration of that milestone, I wrote 100 thank you notes in 100 days. Notes took the form of actual notes I sent in the mail, email, Facebook direct messages, and tweets. A certain divine randomness determined...

KSC: For what are you grateful? Do you consider yourself a grateful person? WMA: I would not consider myself a grateful person, in general, because I think it's something I've got to remind myself to do. Reading the news makes me think, ‘Okay, I...

But now, though I am with eventide, my heart is still veiling down,// And though I am with Autumn, my ears still echo the songs of spring. Kahlil Gibran I feel the rhythm of age in my bones. The once distant now immediate song of feet that swell,...

I know, you never intended to be in this world./ But you’re in it all the same./ so why not get started immediately./ I mean, belonging to it./ There is so much to admire, to weep over./ And to write music or poems about. from The Fourth Sign of th...