Month: June 2010
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Kristin Bock & Lee Sharkey (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday is our last reading of the summer — we’re hip-high in plans for 2011 even now — which is not the worst substitute for being hip-high in the ocean by any means — and this should be a fabulous end to our third season. If you’re in the area, please come out! Thursday, July […]
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Because I’m a tinkerer…
…and because the colors were harsh, the primary blues against a white background, the black title. I liked the direction I was heading in, but I wasn’t there yet. So yes, another tweak in the design, which I find subtler and gentler on the eyes. Because it’s summer, and my eyes could use the rest. […]
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The Immersion Experience
Now that it’s officially summer, the word worm that has infiltrated every sound byte is “Vacation!” Even on Google’s home page today their logo has been decked out in beach togs. Frankly, that image is more than enough to leave me frothing with envy. A couple weeks in a rented cottage on the beach, la […]
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“With pickles for his toes and a cherry for his nose, that’s the way my story goes.”
When I woke Vincent up for preschool this morning, he was laying on top of his hands. He looked at his hands then looked at me with those morning-Puck eyes and said, “My hands are ugly.” He woke up singing yesterday morning, and he fell asleep last night in the middle of a word in […]
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Writer’s Meme
January posted this meme on her blog, and it’s been eons since I last participated in one. If you have a blog & feel up to it, consider yourself tagged, and let me know in the comments so I can stop by & read your answers. 1. What’s the last thing you wrote? I finished […]
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Draft of the Week, #16
Considering all my whining about time and the lack of it, you might be wondering how goes the writing? In fits and starts. I’ve managed to write two drafts so far this month, which is a nice return to form, and only one of which caused agony and gnashing of teeth. Because it was a […]
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The Problem with “Motherhood”
I have no great expectations when it comes to Hollywood depictions of motherhood — especially films that deal with urban motherhood, which seems like a different breed altogether — so I didn’t find the Uma Thurman vehicle, “Motherhood,” all that awful. Not that there’s not a lot wrong with this movie (and for funny reads […]
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Mihaela Moscaliuc & Nickole Brown (via The Collected Poets Series)
Allow me to dive right in and pretend I haven’t been a neglectful blogger of late. I have been an industrious poet, however, dogged even…but I don’t have time to write about it today. Probably I’ll continue to be a slacker on the blogging front this summer — that does seem to be the trend […]