Website Copy: Banaras Yoga

(All copy written on Banaras Yoga was provided by Joanne Kelly.) Bio Pandit Raj Kumar Vajpayee Yogacharya shines with the joy  and openness that yoga brings to life.  A family man and householder himself, Rajuji is able to translate the deep teachings of yoga in a way that is both understandable and applicable for a … Continue reading »

Website Copy: Cupid’s Resorts

(This is a sample of the website text written for Cupid’s Resorts, Goa.  Links are not provided as the project did not include all text on their website.) Welcome to the official website for Cupid’s Resorts, locally owned and managed.  As natives to the Goan shores, we have been providing travelers with a warm welcome … Continue reading »

Bio: Tbone Kelly

Chicago, Illinois,  USA, 1957, James J. Kelly enters stage left to a house brimming with music.  With three piano-playing sisters, an Irish gospel-loving pianist mother and a Chicago piano-playing father, not a day went by without the sounds of music.  The same jazz and blues of those Southern doves who flew north seeking work and … Continue reading »

Symbiotic

(2 short novel fragments) Kiyomi was aware the city could read her mind.  Late at night, its buzz-buzz glimmer lights flash incessantly while neon advertisements and safety street lamps glow at all hours, melting, melding and blending to create a soft white haze just behind her eyes, and always at the front of her mind.  … Continue reading »

Inspired by Basia Bulat

One in a series of creative pieces inspired by albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Basia Bulat Oh My Darling Feels like . . . Like I’ve been transported back in time to an enchanted hill, overlooking a sinewy river, ripples tell stories of youthful love, a current sometimes willowy slow and sometimes war-march fast. Dancing … Continue reading »

Inspired by Battles

One in a series of creative pieces inspired by albums. Published on okiko.org, 2008 Battles Mirrored Feels like . . . I’m a tweaking chipmunk soldier anticipating forward march, over a cliff, into the great unknown. Immediately enraptured hurling forward at exponential speed – suddenly – soothed by the façade of live instrumentation. And it … Continue reading »