Metaphors Are With Me!

For at least the last fifteen years, most of my friends recognize my car (no matter what I’m driving) because of the only bumper sticker on it—“Metaphors Be With You.”

Several years ago when Poetry Alive sold the bumper sticker at our annual National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention, I fell in love with it—not because I’m a Star Wars fan, but because I loved the play on words and because I love metaphors. I bought the bumper sticker and put it on my car. When I traded cars, I ordered another one. I kept it up until Poetry Alive said they were discontinuing the stickers. At that time, I bought several. They’ve become a part of who I am.

When I began toying around with ideas for my blog, I realized that the saying tied in well with the way I write. I write about things in life that inspire me. Every day events and happenings become metaphors for larger ideas. I write in several different genres—novels, short stories, nonfiction articles, and sometimes poetry—but the metaphors are always with me.

So today I’m launching my new blog—Writing Inspired by Life’s Metaphors. I will be writing about why and how I have written some of the stories I have published.  I hope that as you read this blog you might be inspired to write your own story—you know you have one!