If you’ve been checking the widget in my sidebar, than you already know that our friends have donated $450 to the wedding fund in just over three weeks. James and I have been blown away by everyone’s generosity, and did not expect to see that much over the course of months leading up to the [...]
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Scrape scrape
and the skin bleeds
paints the sidewalk
drips over pastel chalk
drawings of two girls
stick bodied and
skirted with triangles.
Three-fingered hands
clasped together like braids
and music notes dance
above curly mopped heads.
Afternoon clouds shift,
hopscotch spent, and now
the game is dotted,
bespecked and spotted
droplets–broken dreams.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eklektikos/ / CC BY 2.0
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Angel dust slapped against the sky
clouded memoir to the moon
whispered words echo on the wind,
“Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye.”
Pass across wan, gibbous face
shadow leaking tears like tar,
but fear and sorrow slowly wane
in slender, silver grace.
On the hillside perches child
in headstrong reverence,
wings wrapped ’round his nakedness
face painted blue with light.
Golden morning rises into grey
mist swirled life, the child [...]
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I grew up in a smalltown neighborhood with the same group of families nearly all my life. My family and I moved here when I was just five years old, and because we were all so close together, our families looked out for each other. Most of the kids in the neighborhood were very close [...]
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Well, I did it. After a rocky start, which prompted the deletion of about 700 words, I managed to repair one of the stalled parts in Running Down the Moon and add 1600 new words to my word count. I am now standing about 51% completion, as you can see from the fancy pants word [...]
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Guys, I have to tell you that getting back into Running Down the Moon has been really hard. In fact, I remembered as I sat down to write last night why it was so easy to walk away from the story when holiday travel mayhem set in back in November. I hit a bit of [...]
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In truth, there is nothing more motivational than rejection. Sure, many of us sink into defeat, maybe throw a fit or two and possibly even refuse to submit our work ever again just to avoid ever feeling like a failure again. I’ve blogged about rejection a lot over the last year and a half because [...]
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Over the last couple days, I’ve thought a lot about passion. In order to continually write, day in and day out, whether it be fiction, poetry or one of the many freelance jobs I juggle, it takes a huge amount of passion. One of the jobs I work for, a job which I’ve come to [...]
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Blessing to you all in the upcoming year. May it be the best year of your life. [...]
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I have never been to a museum with the [...]
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