Month: July 2010
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Summer drives
I spent a long weekend at my mum’s with the boys, where they played with their cousins and created an aura of general pandemonium. Driving home last night the two and a half hours was actually wonderful: the day had been beautiful, weather-wise, breezy and dry, and as we drove down the highway towards the…
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Submission Fees: A Manifesto of Sorts
C. Dale Young has a poll going on at his blog asking what, if anything, we various and varied poets would be willing to pay to submit poems to a journal electronically. The comment stream is long and full of thought-out and reasoned opinions. Based on the results of the poll, an overwhelming majority would…
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All Hail the Public Library!
Though I was mistaken, ours is not air-conditioned. It was still cooler than the apartment, and I came home with a stack of books. I don’t know why. We live four houses away from our library, it’s open Mondays & Wednesdays 1-8pm and Saturdays 11am-3pm, so I don’t need to stock up so drastically. Especially…
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Sweet Tea & Cold Showers
That’s the only way to get through. Unless you’re fortunate enough to have AC. Here, however, it was already 88º when I got up this morning. Inside. The heat has made me — and the boys — so sloth-like that I was able to read two novels over the long weekend. Can you imagine? I…
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Happy Fourth!
Reason enough to celebrate: I have conquered at least half of my computer challenges, hurrah, I’m back — Freedom! — Happy Fourth of July! We went to the Greenfield fireworks last night — what a thing! We were completely bowled over — Vincent “Wow!”-ed and “Oh my gosh!”-ed with popping eyes — Aidan, while he…
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