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  • 2019-07-14 MFA Res Day 1 – Four, Three, Two, One.. Go!

    2019-07-14 MFA Res Day 1 – Four, Three, Two, One.. Go!

    The train has officially left the station and no time has been wasted getting up to full speed. The short story on what happened yesterday includes 4 lectures, 3 orientation/training sessions, 2 trips to the dining room, and 1 workshop. As an added bonus there was a faculty reading in the evening which is always…

  • 2019-07-13 MFA Res Day 0 – Stepping into the Familiar

    2019-07-13 MFA Res Day 0 – Stepping into the Familiar

    Yesterday was a scramble to wrap up preparations and mid-afternoon I made the quick trip from my home-sweet-home to Nebraska City. Unlike a lot of the people in the program I live relatively close and don’t have far to go. Most traveling by car had a rough go because of all the flooding in the…

  • 2019-07-11 Changing Tides and Tidal Waves 🌊🌊🌊

    2019-07-11 Changing Tides and Tidal Waves 🌊🌊🌊

    When last we met my mood was foul and I had accepted the fact and was rolling with it. That feels like four hundred years ago now and so much has changed. In truth, nothing has changed, all those issues persist but somehow the ride turned. And that, folks, is the nature of the beast…

  • 2019-07-08 What’s a Girl to Do?

    2019-07-08 What’s a Girl to Do?

    It’s been a few days since I’ve had a moment to myself to even think about life, let alone write about it. We had a pretty great holiday weekend.. mostly chill and the main excitement was getting our new little kitty, Doug, acclimated to the house and the other cats. We started that on the…

  • 2019-07-01 Big Bites

    2019-07-01 Big Bites

    A few days ago I got a present in the mail which I was super excited to receive.. my packet of materials for my MFA residency coming up this month. It feels a bit like Christmas morning, getting a first look at some really great material. I always love reading other peoples poems (reading mine…

  • 2019-06-12 Balance Restored

    2019-06-12 Balance Restored

    It’s Wednesday and the toughest part of my week is over. I had the dinner party and wouldn’t you know it, the world did not end. Nothing bad happened. Of course they all loved the house and I ordered sushi so food prep and clean-up was a snap! I slept in until about 7:15 this…

  • 2019-05-14 A Trio of Truths

    This morning started out like most. I did the wake up and stretch thing, the hustle my people out of bed thing, and the morning commute thing. That’s where the similarities to every other Tuesday ended. After the High School drop off, I exited and went east toward UNO instead of west toward my house.…

  • 2019-05-08 Wednesday Wanderings…

    2019-05-08 Wednesday Wanderings…

    Today I feel like I got nothin’. Correction… nothing new. But that’s not new either. Life moves fast but amazingly it also moves slow, it’s like a strange trick of the mind. Nothing really changes much from one day to the next and then you wake up one day and realize everything has changed. That’s…