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  • 2022-08-21 Epic Summer Road Trip Day 0: Reading poetry, chaos, and exhaustion.. but I didn’t die! 😂

    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…

  • 2022-08-16 Miss SugarCookie Attempts Shameless Self-Promotion…

    2022-08-16 Miss SugarCookie Attempts Shameless Self-Promotion…

    Calling all the cool people in the Omaha/Lincoln/Council Bluffs metro area. You know who you are and you know where you need to be this Saturday! The Bookworm in Omaha at 1pm to hear local poetry peeps reading from their respective books. More info about who and what here. I’ll be reading from my collection, Unsuspecting…

  • 2022-08-15 Denver Road Trip Wrap Up

    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…

  • 2022-08-14 Denver Road Trip Day 4: Meeeeoooow Wolf

    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…

  • 2022-08-13 Denver Road Trip Day 3: This could really be a good good life…

    2022-08-13 Denver Road Trip Day 3: This could really be a good good life…

    Day 3 of our little road trip adventure and it was definitely a busy one.  “We” started the day by hitting the free breakfast at the hotel which was terrible. So bad that we had to get donuts elsewhere before moving along to the next thing. I say “we” in quotes because yours truly hasn’t…

  • 2022-08-12 Truthtelling From the Middle of Nowhere

    2022-08-12 Truthtelling From the Middle of Nowhere

    In the last few days, I’ve driven about 8 hours to get where I’m currently sitting. I’m more, half-laying than sitting, propped up with pillows behind me in a bed in a 2.5-star hotel somewhere that’s really the middle of nowhere. It doesn’t matter where. The bed is in the middle of a room which…

  • 2022-08-11 Denver Road Trip Day 1: Ogallala and Winning the Lottery

    2022-08-11 Denver Road Trip Day 1: Ogallala and Winning the Lottery

    Today I’m waking up in Ogallala, Nebraska. Mostly because I’ve gotten to that point in my life that I can no longer stand to drive the 8 hours it takes to get to Denver from Omaha in one shot. Does that make me old?  Probably.  Normally when I write about my travels, I start on…

  • 2022-08-08 The Way a Heart Beats…

    2022-08-08 The Way a Heart Beats…

    808… like a drum.  For the past several weeks I’ve been feeling depressed. Not just sad or down, but a serious, “I have no desire to do the things that normally bring me joy” vibe. I’m pretty sure people who are depressed don’t use the word “vibe” to describe how they are feeling but I’m…