Michael Allyn Wells

Not a picture from the courthouse -  Just for optics. Dear Reader: I confess I am late with Confession Tuesday. I confess the picture ...

"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats:  you make them follow you.” - Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art...

I did...  I followed it to Target tonight.  This is one of two large balls outside one of the entrances of the Target Store. I chose to po...

How I Create: Q&A with Poet & Writer Samantha Reynolds Only a year ago, in 2011, Reynolds pledged to write one poem a day to try t...

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making something out of it after it is found." – James Russell Lowell

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ~ Frank Capra ~0~ A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck...

I have only the faintest delineation of Thanksgiving 2011 and Christmas 2011.  This emanates largely because I've been ill during both. ...

I've had a peek a the Jan-Feb issue of Poets & Writers magazine and it looks like a wonderful issue. First of all it has the 7th Ann...

The headline question above is asked by The Atlantic about the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in my hometown of Kansas City. ...

In Kansas City, Missouri the Crossroads Art District has transformed vacated light business manufacturing structures into a thriving area....

One of the things I love about fall are the variations. Not only the variations in colors but textures as well. Perhaps this too is one o...

Writing away - in free write while listening to my playlist. No care given to what comes out - it's choppy and all over the map and that...

Before I delve into this, let me reference a post on The Book of Kells  where Kelli Agodon shares a list of How to Feel Miserable as an ...

The other day I posted a quotation that I came across via a tweet by Terresa that struck me profoundly.  The quote I posted here on Thursd...

I was reading a Wall Street Journal article in their Life and Culture section about attention and distractibality.  The article presented in...

Kelli Agodon has an interesting post today about Kickstarter . According to their web site, they're the largest funding platform for c...

Musical chills, write the authors, from the University of North Carolina, are “sometimes known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, frisso...

There is writing and there is submitting. One is creative the other administrative.  While I haven't always felt this way, I've come...

A couple of  things I've read at other sites that I though were noteworthy. Lessons from Pre-Schoolers   a delightful commentary on le...

      I don’t know the time which is only important for for what I don’t know. The back yard breeze across the deck gently pats my face...