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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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2024-02-11 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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2022-08-26 Epic Summer Road Trip Days 3,4,&6: Big Scenery and Big Changes in Scenery
We decided on another leisurely morning on Tuesday and slept in (sort of) instead of getting up early to catch the sunrise. The sunset is where it’s at anyhow. I say “sort of” because we still got up relatively early and did that exercise thing we do. This is part of how I know I’m…
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2022-08-23 Epic Summer Road Trip Days 1 & 2: To Moab & the Arches
Days 1 and 2 have involved a lot of driving. Somehow every trip that Jim and I have planned since getting married has been this way. Mostly because of the pandemic and the nix on air travel. But even for destinations we’ve flown to like Oregon, the “exploration” factor has been high where we’ve only…
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2022-08-21 Epic Summer Road Trip Day 0: Reading poetry, chaos, and exhaustion.. but I didn’t die! 😂
Yesterday I bit off more than I could chew but I survived. I sacrificed day 0 of my vacation to do a reading at a local bookstore cuz 1: It was a Saturday and I knew there was a bigger chance more people could go on a Saturday. And 2:There weren’t a lot of other…
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2022-08-15 Denver Road Trip Wrap Up
The road home always seems longer. It’s boring, exhausting, and there’s a big let down after all the fun things planned have come and gone. But for posterity, here’s one last hurrah to wrap this latest road trip with ribbons and bows… Wednesday we left around 3:30 in the afternoon and chased the sun all…
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2022-08-14 Denver Road Trip Day 4: Meeeeoooow Wolf
This feels like the good ole days right? Writing blog posts every day regardless of how boring or repetitive they are. Today’s topic is no surprise. Day 4 of my little road trip. Not to be mistaken with my BIG road trip which starts in one short week. I’m not joking. If I did something…
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