Thanks to Xuan Wang for the original photo
Welcome, friends and visitors, and thanks for taking the time to check out this site. The premise here is simple: I post my writing for your enjoyment and feedback. I welcome all comments, suggestions and constructive criticism, and will even tolerate occasional compliments related to my writing as well as to my physique, personal demeanor, and overall pleasant nature.
My name is J. David Stauch. I live in Vermont. I write poetry and creative non-fiction. There are other details about me, too, but that’s not the point.
Please enjoy, please leave feedback. Thanks again for stopping by.
Too long…can’t read that much. Can barely pay attention long enough to leave a comment. More pics…less talky.
My first language is Telugu. Can you publish more of that?
Jeffrey: Just found your work on Cowbird, because you joined my audience. Thanks! I am brand new there. Love your work, and expect to learn something from it. You have a clarity, an honesty, a willingness to tell it from the heart that is almost painful, but also cathartic. I am just now reading Hamingway on Writing, excerpts from his work, and you have the Gift. I think that if I read enough of your work, I will get in touch with stuff I have not had the courage to write about, so please keep writing, and don’t kill yourself, OK?
I am finally daring to dip into the deep, dark negative, but just one toe at a time, tentatively, with fear and trembling. Check out one of my Cowbirds on “Despair.” God, but that was a hard day! Thanks for joining my audience, and I have joined yours and look forward to follwing your journey. Blessings, Alex Noble (Avatar name, Happiness)
Alex: thanks so much for the note! I am so glad that you’re taking the plunge. I read Despair and loved it. I look forward to our continued acquaintance via the written word.
Hola! I will be watching for your Reports from the Field of Life with enormous interest and appreciation, and thanks for your kind words about Despair. Cowbird is unique in that it cuts out all of the usual social networking crap and allows us to create dialogues back and forth in our stories. A good example of this is your Paris pieces. They took me to a Paris place in memory,, and you will see the story soon.In my note to you, I wrote “Please don’t kill yourself,” and this morning, I realized that several times lately, I have written to people I care about “Please do not kill yourself,” and I was shocked, that it has come to this in our times, that we say things like this to each other. Blessings, and thanks for Paris…AJN