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Sometimes I agonize over a prompt for a poem.  Sometimes the concept comes instantly.  The prompt for this one was "drive."  I immediately thought "cattle drive."  But how to make it different?  Ah!  Cattle drive on another . . . or many other . . . planets.

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I got a Nook, Barnes and Noble's ebook reader, for Christmas.  Since then I've carried it around with me everywhere, and read more books than I have for quite a while.  I'm mostly re-reading old classics I haven't read for decades, and I'm enjoying that.  I also put as many of the works nominated for the Nebula award this year as I could find free ( Read more... )

So, to celebrate having done NaPoWriMo for 14 days straight, I'll post my 14th poem. It's still a work in progress (I put parts I still don't like in square brackets), but I'm rather pleased with it nonetheless.

Keep in mind that I DO have a degree in anthropology/archaeology. . . .

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At Life, the Universe, and Everything (the BYU SF/F Symposium in February) this year, I went to very few panels. One of them I went to, however, has made this an interesting month.

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This was the 29th year for Life, the Universe, and Everything (LTU&E), the science fiction and fantasy symposium held at Brigham Young University. I've been to most of them in the past 24 years or so. Up until now they were always held in the student center, where food was easily accessible, but parking was difficult. This year, they moved to ( Read more... )

Got a tetanus shot yesterday. It didn't bother me at all until I was showering and realized my entire left side (got the shot in my upper left arm) was sore. Ibuprofen, here I come!

While I was lying down trying to get rid of a headache (and had a kitten playing under the covers), the tune for the children's counting song I wrote a while back came to me rather suddenly. So I recorded it so it wouldn't go away (I have a little pocket digital recorder), then when the headache got better, got up and entered it into Finale. I ( Read more... )

Before anyone corrects me, I DO know that "laundromat" is like "xerox." It's not a generic. I should say "coin laundry." But I don't ( Read more... )

At filking tonight, Joe suggested I add the lyrics (in my last entry) after the cut so my entry wasn't so long. After I came home my daughter showed me how, so it's now done ( Read more... )