C.M. Rivers

"The point of being an artist is that you may live." ~ Sherwood Anderson

Journal

  • The Price Of Admission

    The other night I made some popcorn and settled onto the couch to watch “Blackfish”.  Somehow I missed all the buzz about it from last year, so I went into it blissfully ignorant of what I was about to learn.  What started out as a seemingly harmless documentary quickly became an animal lover’s nightmare, haunting Read more

  • Jack Kerouac Quote

    “I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word, and the only word I had was ‘wow’.   -On The Road Read more

  • Robert Frost Quote

    “I suppose I’m just a bit lazy, so I’ve had a lazy, scrape-along life, and enjoyed it.  I fight everything academic.  The time we waste in trying to learn academically – the talent we starve with academic teaching!”    -Robert Frost Read more

  • Impaled Digits

    Growing up, I had the privilege of enduring several ingrown toenail surgeries, which culminated in having a third of the nail removed on each of my big toes.  Of course, by that time I was reading a magazine and whistling to myself while blood spurted across the room like a Monty Python skit.  Yet I Read more

  • Bittersweet: A Portrait of Professional Cooking

    The kitchen end of the restaurant business is a fascinating industry to work in, if you’re fascinated with minds warped by the toll of long hours, intense stress, and hearing the same songs ooze out of grease-addled radio speakers. Then there are the bodies attached to those cerebral cortexes – bodies beaten into submission over Read more

  • Stillness

    Like so many things, it comes when I have given in, given up the search, released the desire, turned my attention elsewhere.  It comes in crumpled-up moments – in splintered, fickle doses. It’s as if my expectation of it is the very thing that prevents it.  I might be on the town running errands, ticking them Read more