Why do poets write? –Richard Jones From The Blessing My wife, a psychiatrist, sleeps through my reading and writing in bed, the half-whispered lines, manuscripts piled between us, but in the deep part of night when her beeper sounds she…
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be at Dragon Con!
Hot damn! I have a REAL reason to go now! I’m so excited! I wonder if I could rent a scooter for that weekend if I don’t have mine by then?
Not Really a Review
I noticed a Flashdance DVD at the library this week and grabbed it on a whim. Katie is watching it. I’m not watching as much as morbidly fascinated. I had no idea that it was so crude. I know, I…
She’s Home!
Thanks to dracofrost‘s excellent delivery services. Some of the photos from the camp are here. We’ll get her photos developed and up as soon as we can (they don’t allow campers to take digicams to camp).
Don’t You Want One?
The iPod Flea!
Poetry: The Phenomenology of Shopping
The Phenomenology of Shopping –Alison Hawthorne Deming From Genius Loci Fax it to me he said and I said I will though it meant since I was living in a cabin on the coast driving to town and chatting with…
Duh
Dear Self: Do not go back to the rheumatologist without curiousmay9 or sambear. In fact, don’t go see any specialist for anything but a routine check-in without one of them. You’ll get too tired to think straight and forget things…
Poetry: Visit With the Newlyweds
Visit with the Newlyweds –Rebecca McClanahan From Mrs. Houdini, Poems of Rebecca McClanahan She does not know how white her neck, or how naked. He cannot pass her without touching. It is summer, their cotton clothes soft as gauze. The…
I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
Evictions from public housing near Starting Friday, the Atlanta Housing Authority will begin evicting tenants who are not working, in school or in a work force training program.… The authority, which began notifying residents about the new rule last fall,…
Just Desserts for Souter?
Supreme Court justice faces boot from home? Developer wants ‘Lost Liberty Hotel’ built upon property of David Souter Please excuse the source – it isn’t as if I consider it a credible site, but I couldn’t resist linking to this…