It’s been over a week, sorry, since my last post. Lots going on– school is coming to a close– I finish teaching the last week of May. I cannot wait. I’ve rented an office with a co-worker of mine–it’s beautiful, pics to come! So I plan on spending my summer writing–especially since I have literally [...]

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Been wanting to do something crafty lately. Paint. Collage. Make soap. Make something. I get restless when I haven’t created something in a while. Not that writing isn’t creating but a novel is such a long process that I need to feel that I’ve finished something, you know? A couple of weeks ago Ted and [...]

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Did I mention I finished my cactus garden a few weeks ago? I don’t think I did. I took this beat up, decrepit old wooden bucket that was on the side of our house. And turned it into this. …and now it’s completely thriving. The poetry of the earth is never dead.  ~John Keats I [...]

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Marginalia mar·gi·na·lia Pronunciation: \ˌmär-jə-ˈnā-lē-ə\ Function: noun plural Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, neuter plural of marginalis Date: 1832 1 : marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) 2 : nonessential items <the meat and marginalia of American politics — Saturday Review> <–I discovered this fascinating artist, Ira Joel Haber, online and this is [...]

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Poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning carried out one of the most famous romantic correspondences in literary history. They first introduced themselves by epistolary means, and fell in love even before they had met in person. In 1845,  they wrote 574 letters to each other over the course of twenty months. They secretly got married [...]

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<–Snow in a can makes a great beer cooler!* Just a quick note. An hour ago was in my studio trying to get the printer to work and then Sarah-smile from upstairs came down to help me and then Abby-pie came over too and we got to talking about love and dating and boys and [...]

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I was trying to come up with a good title, and was going to call this 2nd night, etc, but it’s really the 3rd night here of the 2nd full day. So, VSC 2. I think i’ll probably start just numbering the posts. I don’t think i’ll be able to do them every night once [...]

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Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight. It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency? [...]

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Writer’s Almanac, from NPR, has broken myheart and rendered me speechless, again: Baptism by Ted Thomas Jr. Cold wind. I help my father into the shower with his good hand he grips my arm for support. Inside he sits like Buddha on a plastic stool and waits for me to begin. I drench him with [...]

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Here’s another gem from The Writer’s Almanac. I’ve never heard of this guy, Paul J. Willis, but I’m going to have to get his book/s. This poem is so unique and beautiful and spare but so rich. I love the story of this Grandfather. Common Ground by Paul J. Willis Today I dug an orange [...]

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