Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the most important American poets, with many scholars agreeing that only Emily Dickinson rivals him in both his status and influence in the nation’s canon. In popular culture, he is an important influence...

Ode to the Em Dash

In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Period. And the earth was without form, comma, and void; semicolon; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Even before the creation of anything, it’s clear that there was...

The Write Club

Autumn sparks ideas. Everything began in September of 2022, with nothing but an idea and one ambitious — albeit timid — individual; me. Now, in April of 2023, I proudly look around at the bustling community of writers gathered together at Write Club’s weekly...

What’s the best sentence ever written?

If punctuation is the invisible force that drives sentences, then sentences are the invisible force that drive ideas. All too often, the writer gets caught up in the forest of pages — the bigger picture. Lest she forget the equal parts beauty...