Michelle is using a couple of my photos for her Monday Mural prompt (to help inspire or nudge stories or poems). Thank you, Michelle, for wanting to use them. I hope they do inspire folks. (I meant to get this note up earlier in the day!)
Posts under ‘Fiction’
toodooze June 8
My poetry tasks for this week (June 8) are: 1. Read: Read a poem a day (someone else’s) 2. Write: Free write every day for 15 minutes (posting a dent is optional) 3. Craft: Work on one revision (minimum). 4. Critique: Identify (next week) which poems are to be reviewed for next group 6/24. 5. [...]
shameless self promotion
Many thanks to Dave Bonta, who let me know that Mark Woods of woodslot, the premier literary commonplace blog, linked to “Expansion.” The quote/link is currently less than a quarter of the way down the main page, and is sending some visitors our way. http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html And thanks to my kind friends and readers, for your [...]
Expansion at a Time of Great Leavings
Qarrtsiluni has published my fiction piece today: Expansion at a Time of Great Leavings. I hope you enjoy it. Remember that the next submission period is still open, and is all about collaboration and process. There are a few folks looking for collaborators. Read the comments section of the submissions guide if you are looking [...]
Tuesday confessionional
I miss doing these confessionals. But it is hard to pick topics. And I am not telling all. There is not enough time in the evening or power for my laptop. This week is all about taking care of house and home while my husband is visiting family in Northern California. I owe it to [...]
qarrtsiluni is looking for water
Submissions are open for qarrtsiluni’s May-June theme, “Water,” with guest editors Lucy Kempton and Katherine Durham Oldmixon. Water is the moving skin of our planet, the most part by far of our bodies; we drink it, we bathe in it, we waste it and taint it, we may yet again wage wars for it. In [...]
Inspiration from a title
Here is a poem inspired by the title of one of my all-time favorite novels, by one of two favorite novelists- the Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. In case you’re wondering, if asked to pick, my two favorite novelists are Tom Robbins and David Mitchell, with Robbins a clear favorite. Although I’ve never been specific [...]
Confession Tuesday
Confession Tuesday: ~ I lost two sets of earrings last week. In the space of three days two matching sets are no longer. I wanted to disrobe in the bus, to shake my sweater(s) inside out and miraculously retrieve them. But I didn’t. I just felt sorrow and a light hope that they would still [...]
Confession Tuesday
The most suprising thing about Confession Tuesdays is how quickly they appear, certainly more than once a week. It turns out my husband reads my blog. Who knew? I think he does it to stay up with what I am doing, since I am “always on the computer”…which is kind of sad. And sweet. He [...]
Winter Break Book Report
I am back in NJ, after slightly more than a month in Portland. I spent most of the time away from school doing school work, it seems, as I had two term papers to write, which took most of the break. But, it was relaxing work, with little pressure, and nice to be in a [...]
