Thanks to a long-overdue quiet day, followed by a couple of snow days (including today—the parking lot by my building is still too icy to get my car out to go anywhere), I have returned to working on my next collection of poems. What I have done so far: First, I am almost done going [...]
There have been more changes this year than I was expecting. I’m not quite ready to summarize the year just yet, but suffice it to say that the changes now extend to one of my collections in progress, Straining Against the Margins. The first change I’ll be making is to go back to the chronological [...]
Well, I did not write anything today. But, after I found myself intrigued by the artwork I did for the new piece of music I released over the weekend, I have another possible cover for Straining Against the Margins: At first, I toyed with the idea of simply adapting the existing design to book-cover proportions (and [...]
I’m not sure yet whether or not I’ll have enough $ to order more copies of The Lilac Years ahead of next month’s featured readings (at It’s About Time at the Ballard Library on October 11th, and RASP (Redmond Association of Spokenword, location TBD) on October 26th), so today I did a test run of a [...]
A clip of me reading at last month’s Derb Is the Word, which was part of Redmond Derby Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44mCjY2C4A (Note: the first poem is by Vasilina Orlova, from her book Holy Robots.) (28 August 2018)
Well, I did not write anything yesterday (I say ‘yesterday’ even though I haven’t gone to sleep yet)—but I now have a title for my next collection of poems: Straining Against the Margins. This phrase, which came to mind a couple of days ago, captures quite well the year so far—both for me personally and [...]
Pages for the rest of my poetry books are now live. As I mentioned in my previous update, you will now see a Books link in the main navigation menu of the site, with a dropdown menu: The Lilac Years 8: Eight-word Poems This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life …but for [...]
It’s too hot today to do much of anything else, so I have begun the task of reviving and re-creating the pages for my books. You will see a Books link in the main navigation menu, with a dropdown menu with links to the books I have added so far: 8: Eight-word Poems This Is [...]
A clip of some highlights from two Saturdays ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eld0I9_W2Q (27 July 2018)
As of a couple of minutes ago, ordinaryaveragethoughts.com is now the URL for my blog. I suppose now I should start adding other stuff to the site. That may take a while. For now, enjoy the shorter address. (5 July 2018)
