poetry friday: poetry month twitku final round-up

It was a spur of the moment decision, to try and write one short poem a day and post it as a Twitter update during National Poetry Month. I thought I could keep it modest – one poem a day seemed doable – knowing that I had a school deadline and a family trip [...]

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poetry friday: twitku make-up vacation edition

Taking a jump on the girl’s Spring Break we jetted down to Washington D.C. for a whirlwind of what the nation’s capitol has to offer.  Plenty of museums, plenty of photo ops, lots of walking and sore feet and relatively few complaints all around.
I had intended to keep up with the Twitter haiku while on [...]

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#amazonfail: nothing new

This whole thing with Amazon is so twenty minutes ago, so forgive me for coming in late. I was busy. Busy writing. Busy not shopping, not at Amazon.com or anyplace else.
Why is anyone surprised by this? Aside from whether or not there was a “glitch” or an “error” or the determined [...]

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poetry friday: twitku, weektu

Well, this is going better than I imagined. On April first on a whim I decided I’d try to manage one haiku a day as a Twitter experiment. It was either a low bar, my efforts are lame, or I’m in the midst of a creative brain jolt. Either way, the twitku [...]

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poetry friday: twitku

My life isn’t complicated enough.  I made a last minute decision to try and write a short twitter-length poem each day this month.  This is going to be a bit rough when I’m traveling to DC in a couple of weeks, but it isn’t like I’ll get fired from my own blog for falling down [...]

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the new’s of news

I flirted with journalism in high school.  I wasn’t disciplined enough then to think I could do print journalism but I had an eye and thought I could make a go as a photojournalist.  The usual irrational fears stopped me from chasing that particular dream, but I’ve always regarded journalism as one of the twin [...]

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