Letting the world intrude
Over the weekend I spent several hours at the mega-chain coffee place near campus (I know, I know... but now that many of the students have left for the summer, it's a pleasant novelty to be able to go...
View ArticlePoetry & mystery & a bit about Twitter
For a few months now I've been on hiatus from the poetry group I belong to. When I first stepped out, I wasn't writing much at all; now I'm writing again, though a bit slowly - weekends mostly, usually...
View ArticleOldish
Welcome to June. How in the hell did that happen??I spent a few days up at my mom's for Memorial Day weekend and to celebrate the beginning of the one-year countdown to my fiftieth birthday. Fiftieth....
View ArticleSummerish
I've been awakened between 5 and 6 am by thunderstorms the past two mornings. This morning there was so much lightning I almost had a flashback to the strobelights and mirrorballs of the disco era.* *...
View ArticleBlogadoon
Yeah... it's the blog that occasionally rises out of the mist then disappears again. Or maybe it's the blogger herself who's doing that. Perhaps I am mythical. :)Got a concert review for you, but first...
View ArticleTesting the waters
So, yeah, I've been even more absent from here than usual. On the one hand, nothing momentous has happened that I feel I must blog about. On the other hand, there's a level of connectedness in the...
View ArticleNotes from the Rock Hall, 1
More substantial posts coming, but I want to sustain whatever small momentum I've found here.So, last week I spent two full days in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and it was fantastic....
View ArticleNotes from the Rock Hall 2: Music and Lyrics
So, you don't have to know me very long to learn that I love music. Whether it's a lovely cello recital by Yo-Yo Ma, an evening with a legitimate guitar god, or a road trip across the Midwest to...
View ArticleLinkalicious
Yes, before everyone asks, I did see the Emmy Awards opening number tonight - Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, the cast of "Glee," et al. doing "Born to Run." Video is posted over at Blogness on the Edge of...
View ArticleSeason of failing light
So there was the trip to Cleveland, which I've mentioned. Then there was a longweekend of running up to Mom's. Then there was the first week of classes and the accompanying realization that summer is...
View ArticleKittenish
Yes, I've been gone again. I hope to catch up with everyone's blogs soon. (Well, not EVERYone's. But yours. Certainly.) But look! I brought show and tell!Meet Tamarin. Yep, a few minutes after this...
View ArticleAutumnish
I haven't posted a poem draft here in a long time. Haven't been drafting that many poems, truth be told. I'm going to post this even though it's a first draft, just for shits & giggles, and I'll...
View ArticleConcert Review: Max Weinberg Big Band
The Max Weinberg Big Band at the Jazz Kitchen, Indianapolis IN, 10-20-2010Ask any E Street Band member, according to Max Weinberg, about Indianapolis and they will tell you a story from the 1978...
View ArticlePhotographic evidence
After some 35 years of being a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, I finally got to meet one of 'em. I didn't include this pic in my concert-review post because ... well, just because. But...
View ArticleResolution
Oh dear. No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth (although my laptop has enough sticky/cranky keys that if I'm not careful my spelling will fall off the face of the earth). Honest.I haven't been...
View ArticleLanguage and responsibility
Like probably all of you, I've been sickened by the shootings in Arizona. So much of what I feel about this has been said, and said better, by others - but I really do believe that it's time (well past...
View ArticleA request for info
I know I said I was going to blog on Sundays, but I'm going to spend this three-day weekend working on a grant application, and thinking about that reminded me that I meant to ask about something...
View ArticleHolding pattern
Trying to fight off a cold (I thing de code is widding - achoo!). Today's post is postponed until tomorrow. Meanwhile, two videos in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
View ArticleWe interrupt this blog...
...to bring you an important mesage. Well, important to me anyhow. My laptop kinda got bevirused with a nasty little Trojan backend thing (sounds dirty, huh? well, it IS, just not in the entertaining...
View ArticleTeardrops on the city...
I know. Long time no blog. I'm sorry.Tonight I'm here for reasons both sad and celebratory. You've probably heard by now that Clarence Clemons, who played saxophone in Bruce Springsteen's E Street...
View ArticleGratitude and the Flood
So what happened for a lot of us last night was a 24-hour virtual wake for Clarence Clemons. I couldn't tear myself away from the tweets and posts and links that were pouring out from fans all over the...
View ArticleChasing Angels
Many thanks to those who, privately or publicly, have said kind things about "Seventeen/Forty-Seven: Darkness & Magic" which I posted the other day. I really don't normally post unpublished poems...
View Article9/10/01
Yeah, I'm still here. Slowly easing my way back into poetry, and since this is supposed to be the blog in which I talk about mostly poetry/writing-related stuff, I think maybe I'll be easing my way...
View ArticleAnd Know This Place
One foot in front of the other. Determined not to abandon this blog! It has brought me good things in the past - new poets discovered, friendships formed (that's the best part). The next thing I need...
View ArticleForwarding Orders
This blog has moved! Or changed. Or metamorphosed, or .. well, whatever the proper terminology, I've got a new humble abode online. For further adventures in bloggity-blogdom, as well as other webby...
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