Category Archives: Spirituality
“Birth” of a Story
Today is my birthday. (Thanks. No need to send anything.) It got me thinking about birth of a different kind though. When is a fiction idea “born? Our stories start somewhere, but is there a definitive moment of their birth for the writer? Is our story born the moment the first flash of an idea …
Yes, Out, No In, On and On
A few weeks ago I was at a chain restaurant. I was seated near the swinging double doors to the kitchen. From my angle I could only see one of them at first. Someone had posted the word “NO” on one of the doors with mail box letters. If I had to guess, I’d say …
My Christmas Chorus Experience
I was in a chorus once. Just once. A Christmas chorus in middle school. Oh, I’d been required to sing in Christmas concerts and shows before then, in previous grades at other schools. Those don’t count. This is the only time I joined a Christmas chorus voluntarily. Eighth grade, I believe. My final year at …
Looking Back on the Open Letter Continuum
The year is coming to an end, and with it, the regular appearance of the Open Letter Continuum. It has been an interesting, sometimes, difficult, sometimes rewarding and all times useful exercise in revisiting and releasing. Some of the letters I addressed to those I think about fondly still. Others are addressed to those I’d …
An Open Letter: Perhaps THE Open Letter
For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be addressed as ‘Cynthia.’ –Ty Dear Cynthia, Let me start by saying that I got my first DVD player. That was of course years and years ago. But I started this letter with that fact, because that is the subject of the first email …
Ty Unglebower 