by Splabman | Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
I had no idea when Bhakti Watts and I moved to Rainier Beach in 2017 how much we would love this neighborhood, how much it would give back to us and shape our lives. And yes, we’ve each survived cancer, mine prostate cancer in 2020 and Bhakti breast cancer in...
by Splabman | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I like to think of it as projective journalism. Maybe it’s becoming a lost art to write and publish history with deep perception hours after events happen, but Susan Zakin and her crew at Journal of the Plague Years have created an anthology that in part serves...
by Splabman | Jun 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was delighted to see the SICA-USA blog post written about my new book DaySong Miracle (Past 62). I knew it was coming, but to read the way my Subud brother Jim O’Halloran handled the information was beautiful. He and I have collaborated many times over the...
by Splabman | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
I had the good fortune last Sunday (May 19) to be invited to participate in a reading at Memory’s Vault to celebrate the publication of the Empty Bowl book Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Warden. As the Literary Executor for Sam Hamill, my...
by Splabman | May 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing a blurb for a friend or associate’s book is a difficult task. One has to be compelling, has to have some credibility regarding knowledge of the book’s content and has to have a call to act, or at least be memorable. So many blurbs today are, as one...
