I'll have a retrospective (is that the word I want?) entry in a bit. It was going to go up on Tuesday? Wednesday? But we lost internet as I was working on it, so I just saved it and forgot to go back. For now, though, I'll go forward ( Read more... )

New poetry stuff, related at least indirectly to Slam, available at the Dayton Libary is Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf's More Than Friends, a short series of poems about a high school couple from first interest through end of relationship. Definitely more pre-teen/teen suggested, but pretty good.

Also suggested is Jeffrey McDaniel's The ( Read more... )

Classes start tomorrow, so things are about to get hectic again. Meanwhile...

I finally finished A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene last night, which was the other Slam history book that came out (along with mine and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's) earlier this year. I got this copy from the library and re-checked ( Read more... )

I'm like, way too busy to even log on these days beyond maybe reading everyone else's blogs, so I'm like, way behind in blogging, and I don't think that's going to improve anytime too soon. This last weekend was final draft weekend, which means final exams are tomorrow, which means the end of another term, but the new term starts next week (this is ( Read more... )

Yes, it's been forever, and I'm going to split this entry into a few different ones. I've been busy...not just busy, but stupidly busy. Working, while not all the time, has eaten tremendous amounts of it. It's been a stupidly busy term, following a previously busy one, and I've not adapted well. The second half of the equation is that my three-year ( Read more... )

So Amy's off to training today, and most of this week, which leaves me (happily) with the daughter. Zoey's been a delight lately, though occasionally quite fussy with her teeth. Amy's spotted at least one new one and a few more potentials lately. A few teething tablets or some Baby Motrin later, and she's pleasant yet again ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I subbed for a morning class at my new college. The layout was wild, with ramps and random stairs (your choice) to navigate the four floors of the building. In two ramps, you went from one to four, with possible exits, and the layout was just gorgeous in that sense ( Read more... )