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Dealing with Writer’s Block and Its Challenges
Aug 17th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles | 96 views There was time early on in my writing career that just the thought of writer’s block paralyzed me. I would worry that the poetic well would run dry and I would never get the creative juices flowing again. I think that…
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Behind the Lens with Photographer David Pizzoferrato
Sep 10th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles | 107 views Any one of us has the ability to pick up a camera and take a photograph. Then there are those who can pick up a camera and deliver stunning, articulate renderings. David Pizzoferrato is just that kind of Photographer.I met David…
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Weekly Feature: James Paulin
Weekly Feature: James Paulin Sep 4th, 2009 | By Carlton Lloyd Smith | Category: Featured Articles | 220 views James Paulin This article is part of a weekly feature we will be running for the weeks to come, highlighting one of our contributors here at Troubadour 21. It is our hope that we may give…
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Behind the Brush: The Art and Passion of Michael Indorato
Sep 2nd, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles | 254 views Michael Indorato is an artist from Paramus New Jersey whose art I have seen posted on the social networking site, ”Facebook.” When one views Michael’s work, they are taken to another beautiful world, filled with the images of this artist’s…
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With Regards To The Soul: Reflections on Mortality and Nature
Jun 22nd, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles Nature is not man’s enemy, but it could care less about our demise or survival. Nature is a constant, in spite of our death’s life rolls on un-abated. We are but a universal flash in the pan. The universe is the environment of man…
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Remains: A Visit to a Father’s Grave
Remains Jun 8th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Short Stories L to R, W.B. Burkholder, R. W. Burkholder, Frederick Burkholder We pulled through the gates, past the caretaker’s office and made the slow deliberate drive to my father’s grave. This was to be my first visit to the cemetery. The year since his…
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Daddy’s Little Girl: A Childhood Memory
Daddy’s Little Girl Jun 21st, 2009 | By Paquita Roth | Category: Short Stories Paquita y Benito, 1968 The Most Beautiful Baby in the World She was only six months old, sitting up in her flowery pram. Her curls, black and silky, tumbled around her chubby face. Her left hand had grabbed one fat curl…
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One Woman’s Dream Come True: The Last Wordsmith Shoppe
Jun 27th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles Small town America – In every state just outside of every major metropolitan area, countless number of small towns and villages dot the landscape. The town of Northeast Pennsylvania is just such a town, with one exception. The other towns are not fortunate enough…
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Poetry, Pages and Scribes: A Personal Reflection
Poetry, Pages and Scribes Jun 6th, 2009 | By Paquita Roth | Category: Featured Articles Considering that I grew up in Spain and received an oh so proper British education of classical poetry and literature, it’s a tad amazing that I did not attend an actual poetry reading until just last week! How flabbergasted I…
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Muted Yellows: Finding Beauty in Simple Joys
Muted Yellows Jun 25th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Short Stories The muted yellows and golden browns of the fields, were speaking to him. They reached out and took hold of his very heart. He had always been partial to simple beauties, simple joys. He had made it a point to recognize the…
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