I hate CNN, but I was wrapped up in watching the images of the Middle East that they were showing this afternoon. The destruction is just heartbreaking. I feel so useless sitting there in my living room watching people dig their loved ones out of rubble. I wish there was more I could do. My next appointment to give blood is a little under two ( Read more... )

I'm going to add this poem to an online profile of mine, but I wanted to see if people get its point.

All I can do is smile and ( Read more... )

The Agora (an ArtSci literary magazine that I was co-editor of last year) is having a poetry contest. I know few people actually take the time to submist stuff (I know because last year I had to beg them to, and still the content was still a lot of my stuff submitted 'anonymously'), so I think I have a pretty good chance at winning one of the ( Read more... )

I picked up one of my old notebooks from the self to jot down an idea for a children's story, and came across some of my old poems ( Read more... )