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: Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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: Continue reading
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 chapbook I can produce in the meantime. Continue reading
A clip of me reading at last month’s Derb Is the Word, which was part of Redmond Derby Days:
(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: Continue reading
Pages for the rest of my poetry books are now live. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
A clip of some highlights from two Saturdays ago:
(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)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 