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2025-01-04 Maybe I Will, and Maybe I Won’t
In 2024 I spent a fair bit of time in reflection and despite the constant hum of hope vibrating in my core, actual life felt like a huge struggle much of the time. I entered the year in a self-imposed hibernation and was poised to come out swinging in February. I was going to make…
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2025-01-01 Happy Happy New New
It’s a new day, a new month, and a new year!! Huzzah!! I dig it, you know. The newness and hope of possibility that comes with the flipping of a calendar page. I truly don’t have a lot to say. I haven’t done much reflection on 2024 and don’t have any solid resolutions for 2025.…
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2025-12-29 The Ultimate Chutes and Ladders
A few days ago I started a new entry, the all-encompassing year-end wrap-up. Cuz that’s my way. Or should I say, that’s usually my way. I’ve historically found it pretty satisfying to write about some topic, start to finish, where I can tie everything together with a beautiful bow and present it like a true…
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2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…
I’m headed back to Nebraska City today. The home of UNOs MFA residency experience, the birthplace of my poetry career. Can a person craft a career out of poetry? No. That’s laughable. But it’s the cool aid they serve and I drank it in giant gulps. I exaggerate, of course, because that’s my way. A…
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2024-12-17 Oh, Hello Again.
December 17th. Happy Birthday Kel. One of my oldest and dearest friends. We both rotated around the same circles in high school, tethered by the gravitational force of mutual friends and bonded by humor. I’m grateful for our many years of comradery and kinship. December 17th is a day that always seems to want to…
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2024-12-10 My current “would you rather” situation…
I’m so tired. My sleep has been shit lately but I my creative spark has been lit and that’s probably the reason. What a trade off, huh?! I mean, after all the blah blah woof woof about “What Next” and existential dread this year – the woe is me and “whatever will I do since…
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2024-12-06 But you still don’t like to leave before the end of the show…
A lyric from a sad song about how tough life is and how terrible people can be. But we’re gonna stick around anyhow to witness how it all turns out. Right?! What else can we do, anyway. The alternative is pretty bleak and I wouldn’t wish those thoughts on my worst enemy. How about the…
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2024-10-31 A Spooky Sort of Update…
It feels great to be back on my elliptical machine. It was pretty depressing to be away for so long. The sadness and melancholy I suffered the last couple months was primarily due the big shift in my routine, but as life typically has it, the injury was not the only contributing factor to my…
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