okay -- although the initial response was positive, I got precisely zero response to the first installment of my memoirs. No response, positive or otherwise. Whereas that's perfeclty okay, I'm not yet on a roll and am unsure if I should continue ( Read more... )

I'm in the oddest place right now. It's been a good day, for the most part. Right now I'm not happy, not sad, not depressed ... I don't know what I feel. Usually at this time of night I'm edging on to depressed, dreading going to bed and flopping around for a while until I can convince myself to go to sleep ( Read more... )

Holy god above. I want to do this. I mean, I really want to do this. I want to break out of my shell, and I think this -- or something like this -- can help me do so. I'm not sure I can do it alone, see.

I might take up a collection. I mean, I really want to do this. I'm not known in the scene, but I think I can do a good job.

No, I know I ( Read more... )

I wrote this poem in response to the LJ Idol challenge for Week 4. The subject was "The One I Love," which should come as no surprise to anyone with a calendar and a sense of Western "holidays ( Read more... )

So daughter Ariann had her birthday party today. She's 7 on the 10th, or Tuesday. We had a highly successful pirate-themed party -- her first crush is on Johnny Depp, as Captain Jack Sparrow, in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. And I remember when it was just a ride at Disneyland ... anyway, if you see gray hairs on my head in the near ( Read more... )

Warning: I swear in this post. If you don't like that, then you probably shouldn't be on my friends list in the first place.

I keep thinking about slam. You know, poetry slam. It's kind of like poetry readings ... squared. It's where you get up in front of a microphone like I used to do oh so long ago, pick out poems -- and read them. ( Read more... )

open your eyes
dream don't guess
your biggest surprise
comes after Yes.

-- from muriel rukeyser

Because of you, in cramped autumn hallways I ache ( Read more... )