These are the people in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood... |
So today is the four-month anniversary of my move from Maryland to SC. And that amazes me. Time is supposed to pass so slowly in the South--and it's true, in the sense that each day langui...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:20:00 GMT |
Gonna ramble on, sing my song |
So I'm reading Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay was a poet and playwright, and she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer for poetry. I'd never really read her w...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:10:00 GMT |
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé |
You know how dreams, generally at least, are only interesting to the people that have them? I know I've talked about that before. Well, last night I had a dream so boring and monotonous tha...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:53:00 GMT |
We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind |
So this is the last blog I'll be writing from Towson. A week from now I'll be gone, I'll have packed it all up, hit the road. I'll be in Carolina--South, to be precise--not just in mind bu...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:37:00 GMT |
Please don't eat my leg grandma |
It was Sunday night that I realized, without a doubt, that I have become an old lady. I understand that most people (over 18, anyway) don't consider 34 to be all that old, but I'm not talking ab...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:13:00 GMT |
Toting the weary load |
Yesterday, I heard Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, speak at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) Essex Campus. The book is sort of a memoir/novel/short story collection mix...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:25:00 GMT |
Not a blog, more of an invitation |
The online journal I volunteer with is having a launch party in Fells Point on Saturday to celebrate its first print anthology:
JMWW Launch Party
The anthology is pretty decent, if I do say so myself....
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:23:00 GMT |
And it isn't just talk, talk, talk |
So I was driving home from work today, singing along loudly (badly) to "Bad Reputation" on the radio as I sped along the beltway when I think I hear yelling over my singing, coming from the car on my ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:01:00 GMT |
Your own personal Jesus |
Last night, I saw Jesus. True story. I touched his foot, gripped his big toe in my hand, pressed my finger to the indentation, the scar, in his foot.
The story should end right ther...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:56:00 GMT |
I want to be a paperback writer |
I've been a reporter for about three months now, and while I've gotten better at some things, there are other areas that have shown no improvement at all. And those continued flaws hurt my ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:31:00 GMT |
