In a literature class I am taking we began with general questions. What is literature. What is American. What is Contemporary ( Read more... )

Uh. Hi this is Jeff Hawkinson. I don't really know, this is awkward for me. I just tell you how much money I need and you dig into my portfolio and pick what to sell? (yes, jeff. it's okay, we're here for you. You still have about 1000 in the money market; we'll definately take that out and move some stocks around for you.) Cool. So I'm good, you' ( Read more... )

A summary is necessary ( Read more... )

I know it’s early, but I’d like to make a new year’s resolution or two. It may just be an excuse to prolong my vacationing laze by promising change a couple weeks from now, but nevertheless ( Read more... )

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2005. Post the first line [or so] of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review ( Read more... )

I knew a man who wrote a book. _Not As Much As Tomorrow_

He had a fan whose wife he took. _Life is But a Sorrow_

I met him once while out to sea
it took him months to forget about me.

I can see two paragraphs ahead where it ends. It will be finished save for the mistakes, but they are little and right now they don’t mean much to me. When I finish they will be all that I have. And I will have to see them in the distance like I see these last two paragraphs ( Read more... )

Everyone is in the other room. They are talking and loving. They are loving all over the new baby in the family; Katie. I did a sudoku and watched the other little one play with rubber ducks. And a football. Of course there was turkey. Passing, passing, I just ate the potatoes and the green bean casserole. Of course, and the vegetarian stuffing. ( Read more... )

I've been staring at these amazing pictures: bookbindings. Bound (and bounded) books are beautiful. I want to do them, make them, be them. I'm going to start practicing; I need to learn knots and threading. Over Winter Break watch out. I have a photoalbum from 1980 that is tattered. It is without pictures and the paper is soft with perforations ( Read more... )

last night I was writing a thoughtful update about blogging, my history with it, my current status, and the future ( Read more... )