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Photo Walk
I had December 26th off, and my friend Savanni and I decided it would be a good time to take a photo walk. We’d been meaning to take one together forever, but schedules have perpetually interfered. Finally, though, we had a day off with nothing else to do, so we walked around the Butler Park…
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The holidays in food
I think I cooked more for the holidays this year than I ever have before. Or maybe it’s that Channukah and Christmas overlapped, and so all the cooking was lumped together in the span of a week, so all of my holiday cooking was lumped together in the span of about five days. Either way,…
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Welcome, Maxwell!
We weren’t expecting to get a dog for Christmas…and then last Tuesday, and a friend of ours of ours put an adorable chihuahua-daschund mix (also known as a chaweenie) up for adoption. When we found out he was already crate trained and had the basic commands down, Jon and I had a feeling he might…
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Goals for 2012, Part 2: Writing
As I mentioned in my previous post, I tend to be overambitious, and set more goals than I can possibly achieve. But I’d rather try to do all I can and set my sights too low. So without further ado, here are my writing plans for 2012, with my focus still on poetry (I don’t…
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Goals for 2012, Part 1: Reading
I’m going to start out by saying that the goals I’m setting for myself for 2012 are ambitious. And I’m not going to meet all of them. That will be in part because my goals will change more than once throughout the year. Plus, I simply don’t have time to do every single thing I…
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Weekend Adventures
I had such a busy weekend that I’m glad my Monday night ended up being pretty boring. I needed this evening to chill out. Friday started with a trip to Peche, to bid farewell to a coworker who left my company to focus on her music. I already miss her presence in the office, but…
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Exciting dance news
After nearly two years of focusing on west coast swing, my teacher and I have decided I’m ready to put together a competitive routine. I’ll be doing a pro-am piece with the fabulous Ben Hooten, who is a fantastic performer and teacher. I’m honored to have the chance to be working with him, and I’m…
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Tracking Submissions: A New Approach
I’ve been seriously writing and submitting since April of 2009, and was briefly using the submission tracker at Duotrope’s Digest to track my work. But as much as I love Duotrope, their particular tracker didn’t work for me (they’re still one of my favorite places to find submission listings, though). So I switched to a…
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November Accomplishments
November was a tough month for my writing. Between moving, having out-of-town guests, and traveling to New Orleans for Thanksgiving, it was a struggle to get things done. But I kept my regular writing habit up nonetheless. In terms of successes: Wrote 41 poems Submitted 13 poems (5 rejected; 10 pending) Submitted the chapbook manuscript…
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In which I finally realize that math is awesome
I didn’t like math when I was growing up. I wasn’t especially great at it, either. Not horrible, but not fantastic. After a semester of precalculus in college, in which I got a B through hours upon hours having the material re-explained to me in office hours, I threw math aside and never looked back.…