Monthly Archives: February 2010
SPARK, Round 7
The seventh round of SPARK -my third time participating- closed this weekend. I love this project, partly for the collective creative energy, and partly for the deadline. Having ten days to come up with something relatively complete keeps me from dreying over this particular turn of phrase or that, and instead, just telling the damn [...]
Awaiting Further Instructions
The original plan was to go to a really wonderful sounding yoga thing tonight. I paid for it, and had every intention of going. As I was getting ready to leave, I got this feeling. The feeling. All of the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. My back and shoulders got bumpy. [...]
T Party
Back in the day, the only place one could get a concert t-shirt in Philly for a band other than Guns and Roses or Def Leppard was at a concert, or at Zipperhead, or that place in New Hope, the name of which I cannot remember. I went to lots of concerts and got lots [...]
Fare’s Fair
I started taking light rail downtown to teach back in January, and prior to that I took it into town often for events. And every single time, I felt like a sucker for actually buying a ticket, having never seen anyone check them. Of course, there is the sign on the train that reminds passengers [...]
Get Lucky
I got lucky today.
I have always been lucky, not in the raffle winning kind of way, but in a more practical way. I think I may already have written about this, but as a kid, on the rare occasions that I would completely blow off a school project or test (instead of partially, which was [...]
Regrets Only
“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”
I read this quote today and it stopped me mid-page. It is the exact opposite of how I have lived my life until now and surprised me with how deeply it resonated.
When I was a teenager, I decided that my goal was to live [...]
Misbehaving Tuesday: Lingering Edition
Full-on misbehaving is probably off the menu for the next couple of very busy months. Nonetheless, I still engage in willful disregard of responsibilities every Tuesday; at a minimum, I sleep in. That’s right. On a Tuesday. Until 8:30 sometimes.
Unfortunately, even the sleeping in this morning was not quite as satisfying as usual, mostly due [...]
Strawberry Freeze
The heat was broken at the usually warm and friendly Cyclops Books tonight, so those of use who went to the MWA Baltimore meeting to do a little writing did so with numb fingers, reading our work with voices thinned from the cold.
Exercise #1 was to dig into a bag of paint color cards and [...]
Numb and Number
I just spent an hour and several hundred words all trying to get to this point: I am never surprised when I hear about people divorcing. In the past six months there have been several divorces and separations in the immediate vicinity. None have surprised me, even among the couples who were picture perfect on [...]
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