The Crescendo
A spark ignites the kindle, thus creating an ember. From here, a flame needs tending. As an author, I pledge to remain ever vigilant, and keep a lookout for the best of ways and means, to keep my fire aglow. One day, my creative writing teacher, a beautiful spirit,...
WTF Do I Know
We’re sitting outside, having our early morning coffee. Our hideaway is on State and Main. From inside, we’re looking out. Beyond the town’s embrace, just past some well-tended hemp fields, we can still see and appreciate the ghostly “Fog pockets”; as they’re...
No Choice w/the Voice
" The voices in my head, jumped out and made my bed! " I’m trying to find my voice for a recent writing project. Initially, I was vacillating back and forth between going with a first-person narrative point of view (POV). Where the story is told by my main...
Let’s see…
I almost killed someone today, and for no good reason... I wonder, is there ever a good reason? No, there really isn't. What about in self-defense? What if you are trying to thwart an enemy? What if, and what if, and how about what if? No. How about if we need...
Alexandre Dum(b)as(s)
Is this just my way of describing another date w/ Ms. Serendipity? As if knitting a sweater, am I creating something using threads of coincidence, weaving together unrelated characters, places, and events? Am I taking advantage w/ my not so literary license as a...
Goodwill Godwilling!
I’m going to tell you a short story. Truthful, as far as memory allows. The actions that I took, the challenges I managed to successfully address, can be directly attributed to the lessons in a book I had bought way back when. This tale would fall under the “My...
MGTOW! BEGONE!
“The Rule of Law has become unruly”, said the defendant. As he’s about to be taken away. “Wait! You have one minute to speak,” said her Honor. “All it takes is a woman scorned to destroy our legal system.” “You’re going to lecture me! On the fragility of our system?...
The Mosaic
Welcome to our Blog!In our blog “The Mosaic”, we touch upon everything from poetry to prose; economics to business; psychology to existentialism; health, wealth, well-being, and more. Metaphorically speaking, take a step back, squint your eyes, and see how the...
Literati Takeaway Series
Click anywhere to access to our recommended booklist Together, we have the opportunity to rediscover the insights and the lessons, that were once gifted to us a long time ago, by many of the world's greatest writers. Let's regift, "pay it forward" and continue to...
Life
I wrote this poem when I was about ten, for my first love. The subject matter was simple. I spoke of life; I used a flower as a metaphor. Cadence was exposed within the rhythm; housing both within the edifice of a rhyme. I wrote it out on a tea-stained soaked piece of...
Riviera Resources
Literati Matters & Speciality Works For the scholarly, well-read, and creative types we have our reading and writing materials den. For the unconventional, we offer our “specialty products and services” that are not readily found on Main street.Riviera Resources...
Riviera Treasures
Hobbies & Collectibles Turn the key, and unlock your passions. What makes life worth living? A lover, a sport, your faith, friends, and family. For some, it could be a tangible item like money, a car, a home. Just to mention a few. Generally speaking, the...
Riviera Well Being
Health & Wealth What's interesting, is when it comes to talking about health, wealth, and one's well-being, we could in fact, and probably should be, speaking about three things that are really one and the same. Whatever separation that exists between these areas...
Riviera Freedom
Travel & Hospitality Riviera Freedom; an irony permeates the air. Given the recent global events, travel and hospitality industries will forever be changed. Let's hope for the better. We will endeavor to keep you apprised of any long-term changes that will go into...
Riviera Living
Home Decor & Luxury Furnishings Every home tells a story. There will be a beginning, middle, and end. Each part of a III act play differs. Your home too will change and evolve. As with a noun, (a person, place, or thing) you'll strive for proper usage. Just like...
Riviera Male
Menswear & Accessories Imbued with the gift of discernment, and always in keeping with good taste and propriety, "The Riviera Male" not only has a sense of style and etiquette for the moment at hand; but also, is quick to adapt as conditions change right in front...
“No Time to Die!”
As I was undergoing one of my weekly in-house stints of chemo. Physically, I was okay. Though mentally, I was in a pretty dark space. It wasn’t like the other areas of my life were all that great either. As I remained on a precipice, looking down into my “rabbit...
For the Sake of “It”
Twenty something years ago, I made my first foray into the world of selling precious metals. Going into it, I admit I had cast a jaundiced eye upon the field. I had many good reasons to do so, but more on that next time, probably in a future post. For now, what I’m...
Where’s My Poetic Lover Gone?
A travesty, within a travesty, wherein the truth can no longer find refuge within the construct of a paradox. Are we to be governed by readers who cannot read, writers who cannot write, and publishers who only know how to pander to the ideologue? I say, “Narcissism...
Requiem
You’re black? Now you tell me! See how you are. I wish you would have told me this when we first met. So mundane, it’s comical, really. Like a key that turns a lock, you’ve now gone and done it!! This door, now wide open, can never be closed, or can it? If so, then...
Downstream
I have cancer.If you've already read the first several posts, then scroll down and begin reading just after the August 9th entry. All future entries will begin with the most recent posting date, moving downwards, towards the oldest.What a road trip! Having cancer,...
Just Because, Just Because
Just because time had made us weary, and our spirits could no longer speak doesn't mean that life is dreary, as once again we too shall seek Just because we once were one, doesn't mean we weren't meant to unravel even though we were formidable and strong, we were also...
A Socratic Nightmare
If indolent, it's because the mind is mired w/in one's torpid memories of recriminations or because the soul is not beholding to anyone or anything. So just revel w/in the dissonant, discordant and disconcerting musical amalgamations of the hedonistic, narcissistic,...
Digest
This is a very rough draft of something I wrote a long time ago. I was in a dark space at the time. I didn't complete it. I didn't like how it was unfolding. So I never posted it until recently (A few years later, now in Sept. 2021) The reason is, I wrote another...
…just put a fork in it!
You stop, look down, you place a toehold underneath a blanket of nothingness; you become the fork. You see, feel, hear and touch with your imagination. As you genuflect, you give pause, realizing, that you've stopped "Becoming". As others pass, like you, they've...