What's this-am I actually (gasp) writing something in my journal?!

In point of fact, I am.

And purposefully so!

In an effort to keep my summer from becoming one long Doctor Who marathon (tempting, oh tempting as that sounds......sigh.....) I am attempting to write a book.

What is this book about, you ask? Well, I'm going to take the archive of the blog ( Read more... )

I have finally-FINALLY-begun posting the remainder of my memoirs from my travel through France with my best friend Sam in June, as well as my last weeks with the Ts in Amstelveen. I'm really sorry it's taken me this long.

They're not completely posted yet, because they're not completely written yet; but I'm hoping that posting the beginning will ( Read more... )

Please tell me what you think? I know the last poem I posted on here (like months ago) was also sort of about birds, I don't know why but I guess I have been thinking about birds lately ( Read more... )

Nora brings you

Important Dates In History: Literature Series

It was on this day, May 31, in 1669, that the great diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the last entry in his journal.

While this might not, on the surface, seem to be all that important a date, it is relevant because a blogger is kind of like a diarist, and I am kind of like a blogger. I haven't ( Read more... )

From We The Robots comes "Poetry is easy" :


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Here's a funny excerpt from an article I read yesterday:

There are different visions of white guy life, depending on the available light where you grew up. If you grew up in rural Sweden, you turn into Ingmar Bergman and see Death prancing through the forest. If you grew up in Italy, you turn into Federico Fellini and life is a surreal circus filled ( Read more... )

I'm back to doing cross-out books (*) after practically years of having regulated it to the back of my mind (along with most other versions of poetry). I need some second opinions on a sentence I'm crossing out. It's from the dedication of the book I'm using:
To [name removed] and [name removed]
with thanks for many years of adventure

I've got a few ( Read more... )