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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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2024-10-30 Highlights from a Very Remote Nebraska Vacay
Where was I? Where was I before? And where have I been since then? As I alluded to yesterday, being laid up on my ass for two months was a little bit depressing. In truth, though, it’s not like I was immobile, I just couldn’t work out or do anything too physically taxing. I could…
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2024-06-17 T-Minus Three Days…
Three days. Just 3!! THREE DAYS till my daughter leaves for an internship in India and I’m absolutely freaking out. I feel confident she’s in good hands and good company but that in no way alleviates my worry and anxiety. I’ve known this has been coming for months, but denial has been on my side,…
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2024-02-11 I just thought you should know…
As I drive in my car, north on I-29 from Kansas City to Omaha Nebraska, my home, I’m thinking about how I still have not yet wrapped my head around the fact that it is 2024. Yet, here we are, already it’s February, and already AWP 2024 is in the rearview. It was my second…
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2023-12-27 A Middle Place
It’s two days after Christmas and I’m thinking about 2024. I’m also thinking about this past year. I’m in that middle place where I’d like to begin formulating my list of goals for 2024, but kinda still musing about how this past year went. I’d like to say I’m gonna kick ass in the new…
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2023-12-23 The Antidote
About a week ago I posted about all the things that get my ire up. It wasn’t necessarily a grumpy post but I can see where someone might find it particularly glass-is-half-empty. Since then I’ve been thinking, which is a prickly business but very human of me. There have been several events that have transpired…
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2023-10-06 Nodding and Smiling
Hey hey party people. Miss SugarCookie here, coming to you from good ole Norfolk Nebraska, which apparently nobody knows how to pronounce including yours truly. I’m here for a writers retreat / conference—a three day event with a schedule so packed, there’s no time to actually write. Well.. There’s this time but this is “our”…
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2023-09-15 Keeping it Real at the BK
This morning I woke up in Sedona Arizona before the Sun. I actually woke up at 12:45 PM, 1:38 AM, 2:25 AM, and 3:45 AM. When I saw that it was almost 4, I decided to get up but was on the fence about whether or not I should take a shower. My neck hurt…
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