I finished quite a few books recently but I only talk about the good ones in my round up and not the “eh” ones or the ones that I decided to not finish because they were WAY boring.
First up, let me mention a poet: Helen Losse. For those of you who might not know Helen [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Book Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, PhD creative writing, publishing, reading, writing on June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some Publication Updates
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged PhD creative writing, Poetry, publications, publishing on June 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is from my publications Tab
2009 – Inter-coastal and Green Moment–2 poems–Journey Without, The Charlotte Writers Club 2009 Anthology (let me know if you want a copy and I can see about ordering one, it isn’t online yet)
Summer/Fall 2009 – Playing House – poem – Southern Women’s Review (this is a large PDF file)
June 2009 [...]
Release Party Today
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anthology, charlotte writer's club, journey without on June 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today is the release party for the Charlotte Writers Club Anthology – Journey Without – I have two poems in the Anthology. Yay! This is my first appearance in an anthology so I am looking forward to picking up a copy.
The event will be from 1-3 at the Starbucks at 1401 East Blvd in Charlotte, [...]
Me – the Eternal Student
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, creative writing, education, PhD, Poetry, writing on June 27, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Ok, many people have made the joke that I just want to be an eternal student.
Well, that’s true and not true.
I do love to study. Always have. Maybe it came out of my love for reading. Maybe it came out of my desire to do something good, and since my IQ isn’t all that great, [...]
Strange Dreams
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged changes, decisions, PhD in creative writing, squishy homunculus, weight loss on June 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Those of you who follow me on Facebook have seen a few of my status updates where I talk about strange dreams.
The main problem with these strange dreams is I wake up enough to know they were strange but I can’t recall all the details.
And then there are the details I do remember that probably [...]
Family Trees
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family tree, finding your tribe, poems about family on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After posting about “Finding Your Tribe”, I started thinking more about the biological and/or adopted “Tribe” known as your family that you start out your life with.
Was/is my family dysfunctional? Whose isn’t? But, I know the first time I really thought about it was around Middle School age when one of my Social Studies teachers [...]
What No Facebook!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged facebook withdrawl, internetz is mean, youtube withdrawl on June 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ok, I’m working at the car dealership this morning while my car goes in for service. Now I will be here for at least three hours, if not more, and for some reason I can not connect to YouTube or Facebook via their free wi-fi. I’m tempted to pack it up and head over to [...]


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