I'm planning my walk for 3:00 when it's supposed to get up to 5 degrees. I can't wait! I've got my face new mask ready --well, it's basically a knit bag that goes over the head.
That game drawing model heading off bravely into the snowdrift touched the heart, but plainly, being made of wood, the model can get along without a knit bag over its head, which proves that...
Nin, hope you're keeping approximately warm and getting round better on that trick knee.
(All the broken parts have finally caught up with me, so that I can no longer walk, which is why the photo seems so strangely inviting. Ah to plunge into that drift and take a giant step... before dashing back in to hide again under the covers.)
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“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic
forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And
as ...
These Remains
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… it is their task to construct convincing views of the past by creatively
using these remains. This is from Moved by the Past by Eelco Runia (2014):
… Mos...
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For now the snow has paused . . . maybe we'll get a few more inches today,
but certainly we have plenty to work with for now. My phone claims that 20
inc...
Some Local History
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A Worldly View He was a man with a worldly vision. He Created the
Beginning of the World, the Center of the World, and the End of the World.
I am talk...
Stay away from the pool
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My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment
complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the
commun...
In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP
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We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the
next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The
editor of N...
“In spite of all the learned have said ...”
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Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our
country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...
Balance is important in design
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Proof of Life
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Um, hello? Is this thing on?
I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to
Oxford, Mississippi for the academic year! And I have ...
Lana K. W. Austin
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Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been
featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3,
Appalachia...
The translucent veil of life
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Haha, so the truth comes out. Having 2 children is A LOT more work than 1!
I haven't been able to get out of the rocking chair more than a few
moment...
On the move
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*Gal about town, photo by Bob Perkoski*
Dear readership,
Your humble hostess has been doing a whole lot of what is depicted in
today's photo: walking aro...
Strawberry Month
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The strawberry sweets at Lagusta's Luscious this month are insane! I
missed out last year and decided that this year I would take full
advantage.
I luck...
AWP in Minneapolis, and recommended reading
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Again I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended. Much busy
with writing, and reading, and life in general.
I'll be attending the annual AWP co...
Remixing the World's Problems Results
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The one thing about judging poetry is that it often takes me much longer
than I expect. For everyone who has waited so patiently for me to get these
result...
In a Landscape - The Playlist
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John Cage, “In a Landscape”
Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”
Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues”
The Twilight Zone Theme
Babylon 5 Theme
Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...
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That game drawing model heading off bravely into the snowdrift touched the heart, but plainly, being made of wood, the model can get along without a knit bag over its head, which proves that...
Nin, hope you're keeping approximately warm and getting round better on that trick knee.
(All the broken parts have finally caught up with me, so that I can no longer walk, which is why the photo seems so strangely inviting. Ah to plunge into that drift and take a giant step... before dashing back in to hide again under the covers.)
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