Good poem of the day:

( Wendell Berry - To My Mother )

Good poem of the day:

End of Winter

Bare-handed reach
to catch
April's
incoming curve.
Leap higher than you thought you could and
Hold:
Spring,
Solid,
Here.

-Eve Merriam

Good poem of the day:

The Bat ( Read more... )

Now that the Yuletide authors are up, I can thank inlovewithnight more officially for her abovementioned amazing Life fic, which was a real joy to read. Thank you so much!

I wrote this Life fic about Ted and Thanksgiving and stuff for agonistes, and had a lot of fun doing so.

Happy New Year, everybody! Here's to a delightful 2009.

Good poem of the day, from today's Writer's Almanac:

Song of the Wonderful Surprise ( Read more... )

We actually ended up with a pretty nice Christmas - since my parents were in pretty bad shape, I wasn't sure if we were going to have our extended family over as we usually do, but we ended up going through with it, which I think was the best thing for everyone. My aunt, wanting to do something to help, brought over about fourteen giant plates of ( Read more... )

Well, earlier today our dog started acting very strange, and we realized pretty quickly that something wasn't right and that he was getting worse, so we took him to the emergency vet. They aren't exactly sure what's wrong, but right now they think that he's probably had a stroke. They told us he isn't in pain, but he isn't conscious either, and ( Read more... )

An Advent/Christmas-type poem:

Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter 1993 ( Read more... )

Going on hiatus. Probably back soon.