Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
-- Longfellow
Monday, December 31, 2007
Quote for January 1, 2008 ('cause I won't be around tomorrow.)
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
--Meister Eckhart
--Meister Eckhart
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Are you as ready as me for this year to end????
It was a good year in sooooo many ways, but still so much I've yet to accomplish/complete. Very frustrating. Two days and I've only three things to complete by Dec. 31 and then I start tabula rasa, latin for 'clean slate'-- all anew and determined. I have a list of things I've promised people and things I want to do that have not been done and the plan is to mark off something everyday.
First up is getting a ticket to see BB King. He was an hour away on Thursday. When I read that in the paper, I was like WHAT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last night he was in Albuquerque, three hours away. Went to his website and he'll be in Nashville in March so that's what I'm shooting for. 24 hours of overtime at the job and I was planning to get the digital camera, but that can wait.
First up is getting a ticket to see BB King. He was an hour away on Thursday. When I read that in the paper, I was like WHAT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last night he was in Albuquerque, three hours away. Went to his website and he'll be in Nashville in March so that's what I'm shooting for. 24 hours of overtime at the job and I was planning to get the digital camera, but that can wait.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Creative quote for 12-17-07
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
Quote for 12-17=07
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn one’s back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I got a moose
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Not much writing
but close to 200 photos to sort through and continue submitting. However, I do have my first confirmed reading for 2008. Chicago in late Spring. Working on a return to Detroit so I can hop over into Ontario, Canada and do a reading (hopefully, hopefully, hopefully) at a bookstore there.
Other than that my life is quiet. Working though I'm looking for another job. Applied at the community college where I used to teach. Great pay and hours. Let's hope a class materializes for me.
I collect mooses, remember I told you that, but the one I wanted this season was sold out at Sears. The Sears here is a small store so a guy I work with who lives in El Paso was going to help me out and get one, but alas, there were none to be gotten :(
It rained today. Loved that. Two rainbows in the sky. Beautiful.
Other than that my life is quiet. Working though I'm looking for another job. Applied at the community college where I used to teach. Great pay and hours. Let's hope a class materializes for me.
I collect mooses, remember I told you that, but the one I wanted this season was sold out at Sears. The Sears here is a small store so a guy I work with who lives in El Paso was going to help me out and get one, but alas, there were none to be gotten :(
It rained today. Loved that. Two rainbows in the sky. Beautiful.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Giant kudos for the lovely and talented Liesl Jobson
An incredibly gifted writer.
Wonderful woman.
Her story "The Edge of the Pot," published in Per Contra, will receive a special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology!!
Wonderful woman.
Her story "The Edge of the Pot," published in Per Contra, will receive a special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology!!
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Oh, and
I talked to a woman at the university bookstore at my alma mater and they will carry my chapbook! Yoo hoo!!!!!!!!
So that's a bust
Am not going to finish the story for the contest. Not the first time this year-- Ha!I think I actually only got things in for three contests. And not one gave me a nod.
No matter. There are two contests that accept previously pubbed so I'm sending those out. The novella that was previously subbed but my mail got all screwed up and I have no idea what the reply, if any, was on it goes out to a different journal.
Photos on a cd to send off tomorrow when the submission period for another journal reopens.
So it's been a fairly good day of submission!
No matter. There are two contests that accept previously pubbed so I'm sending those out. The novella that was previously subbed but my mail got all screwed up and I have no idea what the reply, if any, was on it goes out to a different journal.
Photos on a cd to send off tomorrow when the submission period for another journal reopens.
So it's been a fairly good day of submission!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Writing quote for 11-29-07
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
-- Ernest Hemingway
-- Ernest Hemingway
Quote for 11-29-07
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
Wasn't it just December 31, 1999 yesterday????
Where does time go? Almost a decade into this 2000 thing. Man!
Can't believe it's November 29 but of course it is 'cause tomorrow's a contest deadline and I've made so few that I've wanted to.
But I'm going to try.
Key word. Try.
Can't believe it's November 29 but of course it is 'cause tomorrow's a contest deadline and I've made so few that I've wanted to.
But I'm going to try.
Key word. Try.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Quote for 11-25-07
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.
--Joey Lauren Adams
--Joey Lauren Adams
Oh for those days
when I had at least 50 submissions out.
Lots of simultaneous, but because I've had some incidents I've stopped doing that. At this time I have 5 stories out, plus one that's lost somewhere 'cause I was bouncing around the states when I submitted it.
Rejections galore. But oh well.
An anthology looking for works that concern Mississippi. I've got two that I'm sending to them. Hoping. . .
Lots of simultaneous, but because I've had some incidents I've stopped doing that. At this time I have 5 stories out, plus one that's lost somewhere 'cause I was bouncing around the states when I submitted it.
Rejections galore. But oh well.
An anthology looking for works that concern Mississippi. I've got two that I'm sending to them. Hoping. . .
soulja boy pooh
Click on the post title for a really funny video featuring Winnie the Pooh & friends -- great job of editing to the song from Soulja Boy
okay, so now I'm submitting photos
Got some works out to some online mags. Anxious 'cause this is new to me. I've had photographs published but those accompanied news stories that I wrote and I had one in the folklife program book for the Smithsonian when I worked as a field researcher for them, but again it was a journalistic kind o' thing.
Currently taking pics with my camera phone. Sometimes it works and well, sometimes it just don't!
I need to get a digital camera. Looking for a great deal on one preferably with a printer. Has to be bought at Best Buy 'cause of the reward points and all. Every Sunday scanning the sales circular.
If I celebrated Christmas, I might ask Santa 'cause I've been a good girl all year.
Oh, stop snickering.
I have been.
I HAVE!
Currently taking pics with my camera phone. Sometimes it works and well, sometimes it just don't!
I need to get a digital camera. Looking for a great deal on one preferably with a printer. Has to be bought at Best Buy 'cause of the reward points and all. Every Sunday scanning the sales circular.
If I celebrated Christmas, I might ask Santa 'cause I've been a good girl all year.
Oh, stop snickering.
I have been.
I HAVE!
Songs by The Carpenters running through my head all morning
Hallelujah for youtube.com
I love The Carpenters-- brings back memories of 7th grade and my first (and only) transistor radio, me and my classmates licking the 9volt battery for a jolt.
Okay, we were really bored. . .
and weird. . .
I love The Carpenters-- brings back memories of 7th grade and my first (and only) transistor radio, me and my classmates licking the 9volt battery for a jolt.
Okay, we were really bored. . .
and weird. . .
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Quote for 11-21-07
I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
--Jeremiah 29:11
--Jeremiah 29:11
Creative quote for 11-21-07
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
--Mary Lou Cook
--Mary Lou Cook
I swung by Nashville when I went to Detroit. . . .
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Creative quote for 11-20-07
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
--Edwin H. Land quotes
--Edwin H. Land quotes
Monday, November 19, 2007
Writer's Profile Project
Hilda Weiss is the latest writer interviewed for the Writer Profile Project at Kelly's blog,here.
You'll have to scroll and search a bit, but it's worth it!
And read Kelly's story "Had a Dad;" you'll find the link at Kelly's site.
You'll have to scroll and search a bit, but it's worth it!
And read Kelly's story "Had a Dad;" you'll find the link at Kelly's site.
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