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“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand, shadowless like Silence, listening To Silence.” Thomas Hood This week Colorado is really showing her colors and everywhere I look is beauty. There is a dusting of snow on Pikes Peak Continue reading Autumn vignettes
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I just found out my haiku was chosen for the weekly $25 Tattered Cover gift card prize in The Denver Post. While I don’t normally write a 5-7-5 haiku this was an fun contest to enter! And it was even Continue reading Ghost Haiku
Tonight Hoarding: Buried Alive is on TLC. If you haven’t seen it it can be disturbing to watch. It’s obvious to me that hoarding is an obsessive compulsive disorder because I can’t imagine how anyone could live with so much Continue reading Letting go of stuff
Guide to Literary Agents – 4 Factors for Choosing an MFA Program
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of PlayStation MOVE. All opinions are 100% mine. While I’m certainly not at the level where companies are sending me products to try I certainly wish I was when I Continue reading Get off the couch and Move!
“The stream was running higher than usual because of the rain. The current was strong and the water turbulent, carrying leaves and twigs that had fallen from the trees. Autumn was beginning. The big horse-chestnut tree was bearing its fruit Continue reading Autumn was beginning…
Stumbled across this amazing site! Wow! While I may be talented in other ways I wish that I could draw. Talented artists and illustrators draw recipes.
How to celebrate October Hot Spiced Apple Cider Pumpkin Cornbread Oatmeal-Pumpkin Muffins Honey-nut butter Homemade Cinnamon-Raisin Bread
Ink surrounds me all the time On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme Quills ever scribbling in my head Sometimes damnit I forget what they said. Ink has settled into my fingerprints But to keep the words I fear to Continue reading Ink surrounds me…