I got into The New School MFA program for fiction! This is unbelievable! Such competition, yet I'll be a grad student in a few weeks! * dances happily * And my birthday's tomorrow ( Read more... )

Ach! This summer has been a magical whirlwind! I took an intensive writing program at the new school during June--it yielded so much writing and wonderful new friends and mentors! Amelia is visiting me from Ireland, and I just returned from a wonderful few days working a farm in rural Vermont! I got to carry a newborn calf and help it nurse--got ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend taking care of Eric--who crashed on a jump when we were skiing in the Catskills. It was such a reckless two days for us. Random bus from NYC into the mountains, no idea where we'd stay--the only reason we found a room in this middle-of-nowhere town was because someone's car broke down and they couldn't make it. We square danced ( Read more... )

Woke up in the middle of the night because of a dream wherein a black dog paced near me in my room....It was strange and symbolic, scary yet cathartic...I reached my hand out towards the dog and it opened it's mouth and swallowed it. It was restless, wouldn't stop pacing, and I started talking to it, asking it what it represented. I woke up scared ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to everyone! I am sleepy and happy and still full from Christmas brunch :)
Now, an epic monopoly tournament!

Killy killy a toll a toll.

It is exactly what life is. Precisely. Joyce was a genius.

Goal: Learn all of the words in the English language, with special attention to GRE vocabulary words ( Read more... )

There are too many things I want to do. Too many things I want to learn. Too many places I want to visit. Ahhhh! It's a bit overwhelming. I want to take up kung fu, flamenco, salsa, and tango, but I'm already cramming in Bollywood dancing, swing, my writing workshop, poetry readings, guitar practice and lessons, and my individual writing work and ( Read more... )

I was selected to read my writing at the final reading for all the classes in my writing program. Yay! I've been writing so many poems lately, mostly in slam style, but I've been really itching to start writing something longer, even longer than short stories. I just submitted one story, Truth or Dare, to a national short story contest, and I DO ( Read more... )

I am standing on the edge, the endge of so much. This is the choice I have been making for years. The conflict that presents itself over and over in myriad forms. The test I have failed repeatedly, and yet now I identify it so easily, yet it is still something I must struggle to pass. Amazing how sometimes awareness of a challenge or what we must ( Read more... )