Last night, I had one of the strangest dreams I’ve had in quite a while… Continue reading
books
A place that can’t exist again (a poem)
Inspired in part by a New York Times an NPR story about Chris Stein’s photography…
Urban pillow fort (a poem)
The January 6th prompt in The Daily Poet by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to ‘[w]rite a poem that begins with the image of a stone, then add at least five of these words to it: kamikaze, landslide, spill, bridge, vaccine, read, red, hollow, mismatch, tilt, freeway, pillow, harmonica, fairy shrimp.’ (I skipped the ‘extra credit’ part, which involved ending with ‘a soup image’.)
A bunch of questions and answers for no particular reason
I recently found some lists of questions posted by people on Tumblr. I guess the idea is that the people who see the posts then choose one or more questions to ask of the person who posted them. I didn’t feel like doing that, so I just did a quick copy-and-paste into a Word document… Continue reading
Recent Reading (Autumn 2014)
I have been doing a lot more reading lately. Much of the time, I feel as though I simply don’t have the time to read—or should be doing something ‘more productive’ instead, but, in the last few weeks, reading has felt like a necessary activity.
So, here are some of the books I have been giving my time to as of late:
Q&A: What do you read?
This week’s entry is about who/what I read.
Sometimes I get things done
Lots of stuff going on these days—or it feels that way, at least… Continue reading
Under Cover
Today’s writing prompt: How important are book covers in getting you to read a book? Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 