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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. My energy oddness resolved itself. A few days ago I thought it was about time we had a fire extinguisher around this place. I hadn’t mentioned it to […]
My friend, Lee, sent me this photo from the Innisfree Poetry Reading at the Bethesda Writer’s Center in early April. Here I am with two of the other readers — Sandra Beasley and Moira Egan.
Mary Biddinger won an Illinois state arts grant. Stop by her blog and say congratulations!
The email arrived about a week ago:
“Erasable, Inc. is having its 20th anniversary performance.” Erasable, Inc. is the comedy improv group from the University of Maryland.
When I was in college, they performed every Thursday at noon in the atrium of the student union. I watched them most weeks. They play improvisational games that are often […]
I’m attracting “off” energy as of late. The printer I’ve used for 32 is no longer our printer. I sent in the art several weeks ago and was told that the magazines would be ready on X date. X came and went and then I was given a new date a few weeks in the […]
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
–Confucius
This is a quiet writing week for me. A few weeks ago ended my near-constant writing of poetry and now I’m in a “recharge” phase.
A few decades ago, I used to worry about the quiet times. I […]
Last month, there were 19,997 searches for “maya angelou poem.”
Yes, 19,997.
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Walked 5 miles today. Then came home and ate everything that wasn’t nailed down. That Danish modern chair we bought? Gone.
I was thinking about opposites: Black and white, right and wrong, ugly and beautiful.
Seeing the world in opposites helps us to make distinctions that help us learn and remember. That is a gift of opposites.
One of the challenges is that we often think life can only happen within one of those
opposites and forget about the […]
We’d planned to go out and buy an armchair this weekend, and I wasn’t looking forward to dealing with the traffic in Tysons Corner, VA. Then I saw this chair listed in Craig’s List. I emailed the seller and we made arrangements. For some reason, I had a gut feeling that the guy was trustworthy. […]
We’re having realizations over at the Creative Mind Adventure. It’s not too late to join us.