Author: Jimmy Huff

• How to Make a Real Difference in the Worlds

  

  Maybe it’s just me (I’m pretty cynical), but every time I encounter The Next Great Idea That’s Going to Change the World, my built-in, shock-proof bullshit detector starts screeching. I don’t care if it’s an advertisement for a new product or a blurb on the news or just Joe Blow blowin’. I don’t want to…

  Jimmy Huff

  May 4, 2023

  Writing

  #amwriting, #change, #choice, #compassion, #difference, #environment, #midwest, #mindfulness

• Concerning Cannabis

  

  Weeks into the legalization of marijuana in Missouri, it’s as if we’ve entered into a brave new world. Change is in the air—change, and a lot else, mind you.

  Jimmy Huff

  April 20, 2023

  Concerning Cannabis

  #weareope, cannabis, Environment, midwest, River Pretty, skipjack review, Springfield Literary journals

• Ontological Proof of Common Decency

  

  “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” -Nobody, ever Isn’t it funny how the right combination of words, overheard and out of context, have the power to make us feel outright outrage for a total stranger? It isn’t ha-ha funny, but there’s a joke in there somewhere—a commentary on…

  Jimmy Huff

  April 15, 2023

  Writing

  #amwriting, #bekind, #belove, #karma, #samsonovich, #skipjack, #skipjackreview

• Rooster Wails at a Midwest Crossroads: Alice in Chains Classics and Art for Art’s Sake

  

  Maybe you remember (the era has become mostly a blur to me), but during the 1990s the Universe slipped into a real sweet spot. That much I remember. There was a beautiful synchronicity at work—or perhaps at play is more appropriate. I don’t want to call it The Grunge Renaissance because there was so much…

  Jimmy Huff

  April 2, 2023

  Lists, Ope Here, Writing

  #aliceinchains, #classicrock, #concert, #guitar, #livemusic, #nirvana, #onthescene, #rock

• Writing Practices and Prewriting Rituals

  

  It’s fair to wonder how much our writing practices and prewriting rituals are bullshit—just like it’s safe practice to chickety check ourselves before we keep making the same bad choices into habits in life. I recently attended a writing workshop where a lecture was given on a writer’s life outside of writing—a topic I had…

  Jimmy Huff

  March 20, 2023

  Writing

  #amwriting, Fiction, how to write, literary journal, litmags, nonfiction, poetry, skipjack review, writing advice

• Salad Daze: The War on Drugs vs. the Legalization of Weed in Missouri

  

  I’ll never forget the first few times I saw marijuana when I was a kid. Usually, it was hidden somewhere I shouldn’t have been looking or wasn’t expected to look.

  Jimmy Huff

  March 16, 2023

  Concerning Cannabis

  blog, cannabis, Fiction, Green, midwest, nonfiction, skipjack review, Weed, weird writing

• Perspective

  In the land of the Lotus eaters, it’s easy to forget how good we’ve got it. Tomorrow is completely taken for granted even though we do virtually nothing to prepare for tomorrow today. Don’t even get me started on all the ways we, as a race, are ensuring there won’t be a recognizable tomorrow one…

  Jimmy Huff

  March 10, 2023

  Writing