1. I've received an acceptance for one of my poems. Will give you the when and where once the contract is signed, but in the meantime, yay!

2. I've also received a rejection for a very short story I submitted, but I don't feel bad about this because: a) I generally don't worry about that sort of thing, and b) see above.

3. I totally rocked my Minnie ( Read more... )

My brother has joined a skateboarding team! Well, actually I think he's been part of the team for a while now, but the point is they have his profile up with a mini interview and a bunch of pics of him skating.

It makes me so proud of him. I just had to share.

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I haven't really bothered with too much creative work this week (though I have been making blackout poems like a mad fiend), because I've been running around like crazy pulling stuff together for me to be able to fly up to Alaska tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. Virtually my whole family and I are going up to celebrate my grandma's 80-somethingth birthday, as ( Read more... )

I felt fairly productive last week, not as much as I could have, but still fairly productive. I wrote several poems, including some blackout poetry and one in particular was written for a specific market, but needs some more polishing first. I also posted a quick youtube video, after I found out that I now have over 100 subscribers. I got some more ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should begin simply, with I love you.
Love of this kind is easy, born as it is in innocence,
part biological, part daily attachment. This love
that is peeled out of bedtime stories, day long hikes
among the redwood trees, morning campsites
and waking to the crisp chilly air by the creek,
and plans gone delightfully awry (tree houses ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert's book. It made me laugh and cry and was a genuinely entertaining travel narrative. I've been hounding my mom to read it, because I knew that she would resonate with it. But my mom has a long history of not reading more than a few chapters of a book before putting it down. In fact, I don't think she finished any ( Read more... )

Thing the First: My brother Chase (a.k.a. Chaso con Queso, a.k.a. Man-Child) is graduating from high school tonight! He's the youngest in the family, and it's so weird that he's all-almost grown up and entering into adulthood. When he was little he was this serious-faced baby. I clearly remember changing that kid's diapers (cue embarrassment). He ( Read more... )

Between my trip to Vegas the previous weekend, and my relax-time at Clear Lake this weekend, as well as all the ins and outs and recoveries in between my to-do lists have been left mostly unchecked ( Read more... )

Last night, I stared with confusion at my computer, wondering why the photos from my camera were not showing up on my screen. So I looked through my camera and found that all of my pictures and videos that I had taken in Vegas had mysteriously vanished. I don't know how it happened. Though I know I didn't delete them. All I know is that they're ( Read more... )