Sordid Blog

I’m now one day in to my visit to East Lansing, MI, for Feminisms & Rhetorics.  Terribly excited about this trip, largely because I get to spend a whole week with two of my favorite people, Trav and Matt. Despite the joy of a week with these two, and dear-hearts from MSU to boot, I’m [...]

So here’s the thing about a good writing retreat, even if it lasts only a day and a half: you can get a lot done if you try. This past weekend, I managed to get several words out there.  First of all, I spent much of Saturday writing the first chapter for my young adult [...]

I’ve kinda been waiting for this weekend for weeks … pretty much ever since I left Atlanta and Julia … so tomorrow morning, bright and early, I’m taking off to Dillsboro, NC, for a weekend in the mountain to write with my favorite Writing Project people. Write, write, write! I can’t wait.
And then, when everyone [...]

Apparently, since I’m working on a couple books, Miss Gwennie JC thinks that she needs to take up the call, as well.  It would seem her muse is Celie/Alice Walker, as she’s chosen the ever-popular epistolary novel as her genre.  I came home from work today to find this on the office computer. Perhaps it’s [...]

I’ve decided, I think, that I must build a wall, a bit like the wall that PSB’s building on their new CD Yes.
Protection (prevention)
Detection (detention)
There’s no where to defect to any more
I’m building a wall
A fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in

But my wall is going to be to save [...]

It might start with spelling “thru” correctly, but why bother? I’m sitting in Panera, listening to a mix in iTunes and right now Brendan Flowers ponders the big question of our human-ness or our dancer-ness, and I’m fighting with the computer.  It wants to sit there and pump music, show me crazy updates from the [...]

Working on my blog has always been fun, but somehow, I’ve been letting work take over and not doing as much writing and blogging as before.  It’s hard to keep up with all the websites, the ones I used to enjoy skimming in the morning while having coffee and a bagel.  But with dogs to [...]

It’s been far too long since my last post.  Ugh.  School has had me so busy lately that I’ve just not been able to get any writing done for myself, or for personal pleasure, or for Susie’s pleasure since she’s the only one who reads my blog anymore.  And why would anyone read my blog [...]

I think I’m definitely much much happier with the blog platform upgrade and the new theme. This one is a bit “boxier” than I think I’d have initially liked, but it works.  The colors are subtle and peaceful, and that seems good for the new year.  I also like the useful integration of my Facebook [...]

Lori sent me a link to this piece, “Reasons to Fuck Poetry“, and I find it a fun read, but maybe for reasons that others do not. Here are a couple of my favorite parts:
Poetry is tired of being confined by the society of those who are paid to do poetry. English professors, [...]