Highway to the Dangerous Thesis Zone

Ah thesis, I’ve been working on you.  Not obsessively, but thoughtfully.  Most of the 48 or so poems that thought they would be in the thesis have been revised at least once since May, but not all.
I made the decision to get refocused on the project that is due in mid-October so for the end [...]

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What to Say When You . . .

are feeling lazy and you think you tweaked your knee yesterday while trying to do too much to stay active and generally be a healthy and productive member of society to make up for the fact that you spend money but yet haev no income and that you scribble little poems in between wishing youtube [...]

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Retiring Poems

Sometime early in my writing education, someone said you never throw out any of your writing.
I don’t think I have ever really taken it to heart but there is a part of me that desires to keep everything I have written.  There is a part of me that hopes somewhere in that awful poem I [...]

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Why on Monday You Regret Blogging About Your Diet on Friday

I hopped off “the wagon” over the weekend.
I was doing well. Then Saturday we went to see “Stepbrothers” (if you like movies such as SuperBad you will enjoy, if you don’t-don’t go and then complain about how stupid it is) which was funny and I had a small popcorn. 
No big deal right? Well for some [...]

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Why on Friday Will I Talk about My Diet?

Well, I will talk about my diet today because Friday is (or has been for me) a precursor to start “relaxing.”  Even though I don’t have a paying job, I do work a schedule of writing, cleaning, and exercising during the week and all week I’ve been eating salads.  Generally my breakfast is fruit and [...]

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Ah Used Bookstores

What is it about used bookstores that just calm me?  Is it just the smell of books?  I mean you can get that in a library or a new store of books. So what is it?
For me I think it is 2 things–
1-We went to quite a few used bookstores when I was a kid.  [...]

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Vlogging About “Truth” in Poetry

When I decided I would try making some vlogs (with my fabulous husbandly bought laptop) the first idea that came to me was to discuss this whole issue non-writers have with feeling that everything most writers create is somehow always auto-biographical.
Now, when I actually went to make the video (i didnt’ do yesterday because I [...]

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