Bukowski

The Burden of Expectation

BySheryl Monks January 23, 2015July 1, 2018

High school students in China understand the burden of expectation. As this article points out, 9.4 million of them compete for the most coveted prize in China — a spot in one of the nation’s top universities. So great is their burden that the entire country takes extreme measures to allow students to perform their…

Creativity & Inspiration

On Knowing There Could Be Better Work Down the Line

BySheryl Monks June 14, 2014October 17, 2015

“Hemingway Never Did This” by Charles Bukowski I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a train and that they never were recovered. I can’t match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3-page poem upon this computer and through my lack of diligence and practice and by…