There are many ways and means to convey a sense of story. Sometimes, I give the pen a rest and turn to cameras and music.

I wrote the poem My Magical Red Flamenco Shoes then, feeling inspired,  created a little companion video as part of a class assignment in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Western Colorado University, Summer 2025, which is an amazing program by the way!

While in northern Nebraska Summer 2022, I was captivated by the miles and miles of prairie grasses moving in the breeze. When we stumbled across the museum of notorious western writer Mari Sandoz, I could almost hear her voice in the wind. I chose a one-line excerpt from her book Old Jules to overlay on the prairie grass images for this 1-minute video. Sometimes you can hear the wind.