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Speaking of To Do Lists

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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Patty wrote in the comments below that “to-do lists” are fun to write. So how about you bloggers writing up what you’ve got on your lists so we […]

I Can’t Get Behind the News

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I stopped watching the news several years ago. This was no easy feat for me since I came from a home that received two newspapers and four news magazines — not to mention I played with blocks while watching Louis Rukeyser’s “Wall Street Week” and Jim Lehrer.
Several years ago, darling husband (DH) was at […]

A To Do About My To Do

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My To-Do List
1. Set up coverdell ira for Olive
2. Send money to stock trading account
3. Write/send note to Mom/Dad for Olive gifts
4. Write/send note to Rachel for Olive gifts
5. Make reservations to Jupiter
6. Write poem
7. Copy article on San Antonio for parents-in-law
8. Take lightbulbs to office
9. Find a dentist and then visit him or her
10. […]

Verse Daily and Hydrogen Peroxide

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Visit Verse Daily today to read a poem by my amigo Geoff(rey) Brock. He has a poem in the latest 32 Poems. Then move back to yesterday on Verse Daily and see a poem by Eric Pankey that appeared in 32.
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PS: I used some hydrogen peroxide on the hardwood floors. It didn’t get the blood […]

A Percent of a Percent

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Over Thanksgiving, I had the power. I was giddy with power and ideas of world domination. I had the power to change the future of television advertising as a percentage of one percent of the viewing population. I was now part of a family selected to participate in the Nielsen ratings. I was “visitor # […]

Secrets of the Creative Process

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Someone wrote me to ask how I create my poems. My response:
“That’s a hard question to answer. The best I can say is that I allow for accidents to happen. In one poem, people were discussing a certain word and how well it worked. I had the word there because I misread my handwriting. When […]

Shopping Therapy

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I’m a nut for coats and bags, but I’m here today to talk about bags. When I saw this diaper bag, I had to have one! It’s so Urban Mama and reminds me of a space ship.

Ma Vie en Vomit

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I was holding the baby when the cat made her “I’m Going to Vomit All Over You” Yowl. So with the baby in one arm, I ushered the cat into the kitchen so she could puke all over the linoleum rather than my nice hardwood floors. I comforted the cat and told her it was […]

A Post in Which I List Favorite Words

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Thanks for tuning in to K32PO. This post goes out to Sandra Beasley…

Dale mentioned Jordan Davis’s blog, and I saw that my favorite poems list is mentioned. YOW. I’d better update my list soon.

archipelago
declaration
skunk
sudoku
okinawa
silk

My Thanksgiving plan is to revise 1-2 poems. Olive will have the time of her life with family she’s never met before. […]

Le Cadavre Exquis

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Over the weekend, I asked my family to write an exquisite corpse. These are the people I love, the people who want me to write poems about flowers, the people who claim to understand barely a word in 32 Poems. You can imagine the resistance.
But I got them to play.
Most were reluctant at first. […]