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2023-02-16 But what does “real life” look like?…
It’s the middle of the month. I’m still lamenting being home from our big vacation and trying to keep things well balanced. There’s a let down, you know, when something wonderful is over and the best way to combat that is planning the next vacation. 😂 I’m thinking of several actually and daydreaming is nice. …
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2022-12-13 Stopping to Smell the Roses… 🌹🌹🌹
Yesterday I was thinking about recapping my year in order to gain a more positive perspective on life. In some way use it to (hopefully) improve my mood. And as I dig back into revising and submitting my creative writing to potential publishersthis month 🍂 (which I’ve done really well on so far).. I’d like…
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2022-12-10 Big Magic, Enrichment, & New Leaf #3🍃
Basically… all roads converge on new leaf #3.🌿 It’s about books, Big Magic, and the decision to spend more time on activities that bring me enrichment, enlightenment, fulfillment, and inspiration. The actual goal is to read or listen to 2 to 3 books a month. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s definitely…
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2022-12-03 New Leaf #2 🍂
Leaf number 2: Personal Poetic Pursuits 🍂 I put a great deal of time and mental energy into TGLR. My little literary passion project that’s neither little nor just mine. Our team now has over 20 people and the whole organization, process, and published journal rely on me to hold up my end of the…
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2022-10-28 One Day By Day
On October 21st, 2010.. twelve years ago I wrote my first post on my first blog. No surprise, it was a poem. It was titled Day By Day and it was about the act of starting each day by reflecting on the day before, and then “jumping in” again from there. It was a giant…
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2022-09-15 Sometimes When It Rains, It Pours
Sometimes it’s all dried up, and there’s nothing to say. And sometimes, even though my creative writing is non-existent, the other words are just begging to come out. I guess you could call this post a continuation of the one I finished yesterday. When I was done writing, I believed I had said all I…
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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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2022-08-16 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…
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