I have been writing for over fifty-five years and have tried most genres. I find poetry and the short story to be my main format, although I do like to write philosophical/topical essays from time to time. I have been published: several poems, short stories and essays. I have been writing “silently” now for over twenty years and I figure it is time to reemerge from time's lost closet. My poetry is eclectic and deals with many concepts/ideas in, of, and about the journey of life. The short stories tend to be egocentric, but not exclusively so. Most of my essays fall into the meta more...