“I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work.” Natalie Goldberg In “Muses Like Moonlight,” my first collection of poetry and essays on writing, I wrote… “Who can I bill for the 8 hours it took [...]
Friends want to know where I’ve been. It’s hard to explain. It’s like I opened a new business with my writing, and my blog is the storefront. As a poet and writer, I’m used to doing what I love without it resulting in any income to speak of. I did have a couple of new [...]
Small town group of peace pro-fessers on March 19th, 3rd anniversary of the Iraq War. This photo (or one just like it) made it on the front page of our local newspaper.
I don’t hide my politics. I don’t think of them as something separated from the rest of my life. The laws that politicians make directly affect my personal health and welfare, as well as my civil and human rights. During the 2004 election, an African American man was being interviewed by a nightly news reporter. [...]
I’m a new kid on the blog block and so I appreciate this ingenious way to meet other bloggers. It’s called “The Weekend Meet and Greet” and is hosted by Michele at her “all things Michele” blog site. How it works: Leave a comment on the Meet and Greet entry, such as “hello Michele.” Then [...]
I may speak English, but I think in Bloggish – that ongoing internal conversation that when put down on paper amounts to writing. My bloggish comes in blocks of thought, too short to be a commentary or even an essay, but just the right size for a …post. Even my first book, “The Jim and [...]
My friend, Juniper, got two speeding tickets in one day. One of them got thrown out on a technicality. Her vanity license plate said SACRED, but the cop wrote SCARED on the ticket. I once left my journal in an Applebee’s restaurant after having lunch there. When I went back an hour or so later [...]
Even if it’s 1 a.m. and I went to bed at midnight Even if I’m meditating and I’m not supposed to open my eyes Even if I’m driving and I have to scribble it on my hand Even if I’m in the dentist office and I have to ask the receptionist for a pen and [...]
Rejection slip for ”The Diary of Anne Frank” – The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ”curiosity” level. I submitted an essay to The Sun Magazine last week. Yesterday my husband noticed a typo in a copy of the already sent cover [...]
“10 things I’ve done…that you probably haven’t” came from Melinama at Pratie Place – at least that’s where I first saw it. It’s another fun way to get to know each other. Feel free to share your own list. I would love to print out a collection of some of the most interesting ones. This [...]
My Asheville, North Carolinian, potter son, Josh, who is also a closet super-hero, turned me on to New Castle Beer, a dark but not Guinness dark beer made in Great Britain. Around the same time he showed off – what he would call “flash treads” or more informally “kicks” – his new pair of New [...]
Apparently blogs now have their own version of the Academy Awards called the annual “Bloggies.” Here are a few interesting blog facts that I got from a March 15th BBC report covering that event: * Blogs had a big year last year, with a top US dictionary naming “blog” word of 2004. * Technorati, a [...]
Found on a scrap of paper this morning and in my own handwriting: “If no one is going to quote me, I’ll quote myself.” Is that a quote?
1. “Are you digging the snow? was my preferred line all day yesterday after 5 inches of the white stuff fell on us, here in Floyd County. I used it on everyone I spoke with, online or otherwise. It started out innocently enough in a blog comment I made to Doug, after viewing his photos [...]
My first blog was born on March 12, 2005. Five days later it took its first step. With the help of my friend, Doug Thompson, I have moved on to another server, faster and easier to use, I am told. Coincidently, on the day my blog was being set up at this new location, the [...]
10:00 a.m. – Are you familiar with the impatient weight in your fingers when you have a post “copy” to “paste” but have nowhere to paste it? And what did you do with your time when you couldn’t get on the blogger.com site all of last night and so far all morning to post today’s [...]
Since my mid-twenties I have struggled with something – for lack of a better explanation – in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome family. My current Chinese Medicine Practitioner does not approve of the term. The emphasis on “chronic” might enable a self-fulfilling prophecy, he suggests. He might refer to my problem as “a yin deficiency”…or maybe [...]
Ed Wilhelm: I moved to Floyd County in 1985 and immediately got involved in the production of the “Museletter,” a locally published forum that includes event listings, poetry, columns, and more. Back then it was called The ERC Newsletter and was, as it remains to this day, supported mostly by Floyd’s “alter-natives.” It was Ed, [...]
