Well, I'm offered a pretty good position at the EducationWorks summer camp, a step up from counselor to academic facilitator. I might be leading middle school kids in a service learning project, which is exactly the sort of thing I like to do. It's just that it's full time and that is a LOT of time being around loud loud kids ( Read more... )

There's a handful of people who help make me who I am. I don't thank them often enough. One of those is Lea Deschenes, whose support,friendship, and poetry have sustained me through so much. The first time she signed a book to me, it said "I am NOT a role model." and, ha. She still is.

Happy happy birthday,lady. Leaves for celebration!!

Okay, Write Bloody didn't take me. They took a lot of you. It's going to take a while to get over the hurt and the left-behindness I always seem to feel while trying to cultivate some kind of poetry career type thing. It's always a combination feeling- poems going unread plus being left out in a group-of-friends kind of way ( Read more... )

1. Lint brushes are important ( Read more... )

"Dear Jane ( Read more... )

3rd Annual ( Read more... )

April is Autism Awareness month. Families like my sister's work their asses off and deserve all the care they can get, so go here:http://apps.facebook.com/causes/321/30186911?m=6d54c0aa or read "Look Me in the Eye" or "The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime ( Read more... )

So the good news is that Amy got a job, Textbook Manager at Delaware State University bookstore. The bad part is that it's in Dover ( Read more... )

1. I got caught in the rain with no umbrella(ella) but then I saw a DOUBLE rainbow.

2. Tomorrow I'm going to a pillowfight.

Write Bloody Press: Go Robb! Go me ( Read more... )