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I Showed Up 30 Days in a Row

Posted by deborah

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. Part of being a creative person, an artist, a human is simply showing up. You show up for your work, your beliefs, your people. Every day for 30 […]

Washington Post Poetry World

Posted by deborah

The Post declared that the most recent issue of Book World is the Poetry Issue. I only had time for a quick glance…What I noticed was that they had a few reviews of poetry anthologies, including Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems and Dancing With Joy: […]

Did You Call the Banana and Other Stories

Posted by deborah

Once, when O was 4 months old, my sister came over. If you have had a newborn to care for, then you can understand barely having time to brush your teeth let alone brush your hair. If you have never taken care of a newborn, just trust me on this one.
When my sister gets her […]

Creativity Workshop

Posted by deborah

On May 5, I’m teaching a creativity workshop in New Jersey. Although I’ve got a lot of the course planned, I thought you might have suggestions about what you’d want to see in a creativity course.
While I’ve taught courses like this quite often, I’ve not taught one to all writers.
If you were to take a […]

Wishing Your Life Away

Posted by deborah

This morning, I was thinking how I want to count down the days until April (and NaPoWriMo) are over. That reminded me of a time when I worked for The Mothership (large corporation on a government contract). I walked into the bathroom and chatted with the janitor. I told her I wished it was Friday. […]

Do You Use Google to Write Poems?

Posted by deborah

UPDATE:Thank you for your responses. I find it fascinating to learn how people use technology for writing.
I use Google for light research — to find a name or date. I do double check sources. It’s curious how we learn if a site is trustworthy or not. Most likely, a site won’t lie about a […]

32Poems on Verse Daily

Posted by deborah

We were on Verse Daily yesterday. Whee!

Quick Notes from the Beach

Posted by deborah

We arrived Friday afternoon and met about every dog in Rehoboth. O is both fascinated and scared by these creatures. We played on the beach — wondering how I could forget a ball and a bucket/shovel combo. Sadly, Funland (home to Skee Ball) was still closed for the winter, so I was not able to […]

Friday

Posted by deborah

I’ll be at the beach this weekend and hopefully unplugged from the internet. Keep the internet going in my absense and wish me luck at Skee Ball. I’ll write more when I come back.

Virginia Tech - Nikki Giovanni’s Speech

Posted by deborah

Thanks to Collin for pointing out this video.
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At first, I was one of the people asking how two hours could go by before the school gets closed down. DH started asking me the hard questions about the situation, and I had to reconsider my original thoughts. What would you do if there was a shooting […]