Should you be concerned that the last you heard from me was on 4/20? Should you? No, really not. The day passed with no out-of-control homage from me. No, instead I’ve just been leaving this posting business for way too late, and instead of sitting up and falling asleep on the computer, I’ve just put [...]
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Last breath of April …
Posted in books, choose your own adventure, containing myself, guilty pleasures, learning, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, out and about, poetry, slice of life, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, using our words, women, writing, tagged books, choose your own adventure, containing myself, guilty pleasures, learning, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, out and about, poetry, SOL, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, using our words, women, writing, Zeno on 1 May 2012 | 5 Comments »
Catching a Tiger by the Tail
Posted in choose your own adventure, containing myself, music, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, slice of life, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things that please me, using our words, writing, tagged choose your own adventure, collaborations, containing myself, friends and neighbors, heidisabertooth, music, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, SOL, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things that please me, using our words, writing, Zeno on 10 April 2012 | 10 Comments »
Seriously. Tonight, friends and neighbors, I want to introduce you to heidisabertooth. I’ve known Heidi a while, but not really. We work together, but it’s only in the last maybe 18 months that I’d say we’ve started to know each other. Part of that is because we work much more closely together now. Part of [...]
SOL: Just Write
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, slice of life, writing, tagged NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Nikki Giovanni, poetry, SOL, writing, Zeno on 3 April 2012 | 13 Comments »
Ego Tripping (excerpt) I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light I am bad – Nikki Giovanni Let’s just say it now: there [...]
Fox in the Henhouse
Posted in family, love, people I love, slice of life, tagged family, love, people I love, sisters, SOLSC on 31 March 2012 | 8 Comments »
(Not really. I just wanted a title with”fox” in it.) Today is my sister’s birthday. “Fox” is what I call her here. She’s my kid sister, my baby sister. She is, of course neither kid nor baby. She is my touchstone, the one I trust to tell me the truth even when I don’t want [...]
Okay wait — let’s try a little thoughtfulness.
Posted in learning, race and racism, slice of life, tagged learning, privilege, race and racism, SOLSC, where we're from on 30 March 2012 | 15 Comments »
I’m still on about Hunger Games craziness. No spoilers here, just a conversation I wish I could have with a few of the people whose reactions to the casting of Thresh, Rue and Cinna inspired Wednesday’s rant. A couple of tweets struck me as leaving an open enough door for the possibility of conversation. The [...]
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