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| State/Province: | Arkansas |
I'm a Generation Joneser teaching Gen Y students, keeping up with aging parents and a grown child, and living in the brick wall suburbia of a small southern college town.
I'm just like you, really. | |
on May 27, 2013
Out in the counties, Decoration Day is a pre-Memorial Day sacrament. Families drive in from all over to tidy-up plots, to place flowers both real and otherwise, and to remember. On Saturday, I rode with my friend Melinda to Canaan Cemetery in Marshal...
on Nov 2, 2012 in: writing
I have passed from brilliant plotting to mostly incoherent stream-of-consciousness, and landed here where it now appears I'm writing a semi-articulate prose poem. Welcome to my NaNoWriMo novel, Day Two. This always happens. My brain is hardwired fo...
on Oct 27, 2012 in: writing
Remember when you were in your early twenties and all the world was an unrealized epiphany? Every day filled with fascination, raw understanding, the daily freshness of discovery and insight? Other than the obvious developmental reasons for this, you...
on Oct 6, 2012 in: writing
This year's National Novel Writing Month will be my fourth rodeo. I've written and helped others to write for awhile now and so I thought I'd sling a little advice out there to help writers who are taking the plunge. Still haven't decided whether or...
on Oct 3, 2012
(Chrysler 1959 Report via) I had an English professor in college who was famous for his shabby ride. It was some flavor of mid-60s rusty Chevrolet, clearly blue and white at some point, but its beauty was long faded. We all thought it added to his...
on Sep 29, 2012
In anticipation of National Novel Writing Month, and because I adore you all, free NaNoWriMo Calendar wallpapers all round. these come in handy to help log the word count. Whipped these up myself, so feel free to click on the picture and download awa...
on Sep 19, 2012
We made a smooth mess. Always do. Six women, a mountain of yarn, dyes to die for, and a rainy Saturday. We have enough now to knit a sweater for Saturn and mittens for all its moons. The only thing missing now is winter. For anyone interested, the s...
