• Photography,  Writing

    I Am An Early Morning Writer

    For many years, I have added time and date information at the beginning of each of the entries in my writing notebook for the purposes of tracking when my best inspiration occurs. When we are prepared as writers, that is one thing, but it is quite another to track our progress and try to predict when the next magic moment of inspiration and motivation will occur. After studying the time of day for hundreds of writing pieces, a pattern has developed.  Statistically, I am most productive, inspired, and produce the best writing early in the morning hours, generally if I am writing before anyone else gets out of bed, leading…

  • Diary

    I Dreamed A Dream

    I dreamed a dream about an abandoned school.  Here is an excerpt from my journal from March 5, 2014.  Please leave your interpretation of this dream in the comments and help me to figure out what the dream means, also known as dream interpretation. Last night I had a very strange and somewhat disturbing dream.  In the dream, I am exploring an abandoned school for disturbed children in Dix Hills, New York.  As is my usual activity during these explorations, I am also taking pictures with my Canon DSLR camera. All is going well as usual, though I feel as if this particular location may be inhabited by ghostly spirits,…

  • Writing

    The Curse Of Brevity

    Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief. William Shakespeare, Hamlet Brevity is defined as the concise and exact use of words in writing or speech; in a sense, the way I have started to write in recent years. But why? I do not know. When I first started writing seriously, the year was 1998.  I was a senior in high school, and was going through a very difficult time in my life.  Things were so rough that I burned my notebooks from that year.  At the time, I found that I could easily fill an entire college ruled composition book…

  • Writing

    Time And Time Again

    Lately I have been reading through old journal entries in search of patterns, specifically looking for examples of how my life has changed, and coincidentally, how my perceptions and opinions have changed. Life is a never ending journey in which everything changes; as much as one tries to fight it, one inevitably and subconsciously changes to adapt to the challenges of life.  Most of my life is documented in books filled with written pages, time and time again I revisit my past in search of clarity or the occasional nostalgia. When I was younger, I would dream about how my life would be in the future.  I clearly remember at…