I should be writing some poems this month.  It's like I can feel them bubbling under the surface, and all the stupid stress in my life is keeping them there ( Read more... )

Go visit The Furnace Review's blog page today, and you'll see a familiar name on the byline at the end!

Also, why not submit a story, photo or some poetry while you're there?  Being published is good.  And we've already published  radioactiveart and one of the twosnoos .

The post is about the literary magazine MonkeyBicycle because they published a one-sentence story by ( Read more... )

It's hard as shit to find parking in this mess.  If you are coming to my birthday party tomorrow night, I would advise just finding the closest possible spot and walking.  Don't fuss over it too much, and please, don't be a jerk who moves other people's chairs and steals their spots ( Read more... )

Reflecting back on Year 27 of This Life of Mine, it was a good year.  There are only a few days left to contend with, and then we'll see what Year 28 brings ( Read more... )

I didn't know you the way some did.  I can't remember if we ever shared any kind of extensive conversation, but I remember your smile, your laugh, the way your personality could fill a space.

You are loved, special, and you will be remembered fondly by all of us who ever had the privilege of being acquainted with you.

My patience for all of this wears so thin sometimes.

Every other week, I swear I need a new job.  But I've been here for a year and a half now.  I'm kind of scared to go anywhere else.

So what does it say about me when I hear "Livin' on a Prayer" at least once a day on the only radio station I can get in our office, and I still rather like it every time?

So much for my indie cred.  Not that I ever really gave a shit anyway.

Read more.

Write more.

Love more.

Organize more.

Always keep trying to better myself. I think that'll do it.

Hickies.

I have several.

Break out the collared shirts, because I still have to go to work tomorrow.

Motivation. I needs it ( Read more... )