Railway Post Office (RPO car) Today Jon and I visited Steamtown in Scranton, which is about 70 miles from home. We did this instead of doing homework or working for you-know-who or putting away boxes! Steamtown is a repository of classic and vintage locomotives and rolling-stock. It has a good museum, including an historical and [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
An American sentence for this day
Pain etches long shadows on another bright blue sky: where were we then? * * * For all the lives lost.
A request for your phones!
This post is a little different from most (but not all) of the others on Stoney Moss. I’m writing to reach out to you to help me make a difference in someone’s life. No, I’m not asking for money. I’m not even asking for your time. I’m just asking you to get rid of some [...]
American voyeur*
This week’s Read Write Poem prompt is from Carolee. She asked us to go places we weren’t supposed to, describe things we weren’t supposed to see. To rubberneck. And report. That is a tall order. I have been racking my brain. Trying to look. Trying to remember. It’s dangerous business. What I have for you [...]
Call for sumbissions
From one of Stoney Moss’s favorites: * * * Hi folks, Submissions are now open for the next issue at qarrtsiluni, with “Journaling the Apocalypse” as the new theme. We are editing the issue ourselves this time, in order to reacquaint ourselves with the process and be in a better position to advise future guest [...]
Funny pairings of my email contents and gmail
These are my pairings of Gmail advertisements and recent email to & from poetry pals: Land sales in New Mexico, Easy Find Email Addresses and the New Equator Truck = a line to a poem pal containing the word “hemisphere”. SockMonkeys, Survey Monkeys, Monkeys On Acid (I’m not making this up, folks) and Hipster Chics [...]
So help me, ???
I am now an official employee of the State of New Jersey. Last year, my paychecks were signed by the state, but because I wasn’t officially exchanging any “services” (ie: fellowships only come with the expectation to be a student), I wasn’t a real employee. But now, because I traded my second fellowship year with [...]
Mission Accomplished
No, not that mission! I FINALLY completed all my work for my first year of graduate school. Yippee! Last night (morning?), at 4 am, I dotted the last i on my final paper of the year: The Construction of Pre-Cancer Diagnoses as a Reaction to Death. Snappy title, eh? It’s good timing, because the new [...]
Paradise park
Last Saturday my hiking buddy and I managed, somehow, to get up to Paradise Park on Mount Hood. I have a few photos to show – not as many as I’d like, for my battery went dead, and the hours grew long, and I didn’t want to dilly-dally too much. But I also have a [...]
Protected: CoSto: September 30, 1998 Hey Lil’Sista
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