"I finally wrote something new.  It's posted here, Talking to God.  I hope you like it."

"Finished it yesterday, with some suggestions from my Kathy. Check out Talking to God on my page or in the POETRY section Please Please Please offer your critiques!  How else can I improve?"

"Lookin' Back by Chuck Stromme Clapboard wallsshotgun shackgravel out frontweeds in backGrew up therecouldn't stayleft home younggonna have my wayApples on treesbees still buzzrope still hangswhere the swing once wasTire on the groundwater…"

"OK, I haven’t resumed writing yet.  No discipline, gotta work on that. BUT ... I entered some of my old work in 2-3 online writing contests.  That’s not quite cheating, is it?  I’m OK with it.  I’ll let…"

"Thank you for your kind words.  I will see how to delete the other, as I thought it was lost, anyway.   I have often wanted to leave some stories of 'the good old days', for my kids.  I really appreciate this…"

"Both versions are excellent but I prefer this version.  This is a great memoir piece (think book) and I can feel these moments in your life.  I would have run, too!"

"Poet?  Me neither!  (Goodbye syntax award!)  But give it a try.  I admit to being surprised when I did.  Who knew? This poem wasn't supposed to be about war although who am I to say what a reader sees in any of my…"

"This made me think about my childhood and friends lost, not to war, but times that were tough in other ways.  Hmmm I've never thought me a poet.  but maybe.... Life is sure an ever changing adventure."

"I’ve never thought about drafts but why not?  Just post it to any section you want and tell us up front that it’s a draft. I, too, have written several newspaper articles, about tax and the Alaskan fishing industry while I was…"

"I did write this morning, a story entitled, Why Did You Run?    I can't find it now.  I thought you have to approve it, and then I could find it.  I even went back and proof read, correcting some punctuation…"