Spring
September 6, 2009
- Or if you're totally paranoid - What I hate about you.Which of course isn't an issue unless you are a troll.Moving right along - Spring has a way of truly pissing me off. Bad enough EVERYTHING is covered with pine pollen - yellow shite is everywhere. It runs in rivers the minute it rains leaving a yellow rim around the gutters and swirls on the footpath. IT MAKES ME SNEEZE. And my eyes run. And ...
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May 24, 2009
- Hey everyone:Well now that the cover art is up on Amazon, I'd like to share with you that I have a new book for children, slated for publication via Knopf Books for Young Readers in the Spring of 2010. Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary celebrates the beautiful non-human animal residents of Farm Sanctuary, a national organization devoted to protecting farm animals. Once again I ...
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May 13, 2009
- (Originally posted on March 27, 2009 on my main blog.) Ahhh....Spring. I'm not one who has a favorite season. Each one offers its delights and literary opportunities. And each one its challenges (tax preparation, for example). But on a singular practical note, as a motorcyclist, Spring rules! Still chilly enough so you're not suffering in thick leather. Warm enough so you're not screaming IT'S SO ...
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April 27, 2009
- Outside the doors, the world is changing, greening, coming alive. I love spring for so many reasons, but probably most for reimmersion with hope. Where the world was dead and ugly now is verdant and full of life, and beautiful. The bouquet sitting on my table as I write is bursting with fragrance and bloom—tulips, jonquils, bleeding hearts, and Poet’s daffodils. Ah—Spring I love! Even more ...
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April 14, 2009
- Aubade on Avenue D
Brick, Brick, Brick and
Shingle. Asphalt, pot-hole
of dense, mud-rich water,
torn paper cup, floating,
red plastic lid to a tylenol
bottle, strands of synthetic doll
hair. Iron pole, wire, light
smeared on the side
of a telephone pole. Staples.
Wet paper flapping. Xeroxed
words melting to gibberish.
Hysterical sparrow on top
of a soggy corn muffin.
Bicycle ...
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April 13, 2009
- I've become a fan of Netflix.com. I confess. Instead of writing my blog, it's been constant catch-up on movies that I've missed over the last couple of years. What's so addictive about it is that you can put on earphones and avoid disturbing anyone at all hours of the night and early morn. Then, when the movie (or two)is finished, I can catch the early-early morning news, say at 4 a.m., hear it ...
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April 12, 2009
- After a while, I emerged from that winter solstice of the spirit, entombed by dark days, as out of a long, long dream. It was far worse than anything I had yet endured. I had not known what it would cost, to see things for what they were worth. I only wanted to sleep, forget. The very daylight impinging on the room each morning brought a flood of dread. Another day. Another ...
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April 2, 2009
- April 2 PADUANS The pussy willows bloom looking much like crested poultry. The coldest part of my heart is fighting to thaw in this early spring. Weather is not of the mind to be rushed. Neither my hopes nor the changing calendar can persuade the warmth into the May mornings. It’s May for me, too, no longer the early sobriety of January. The years have marched on; I wait for ...
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April 1, 2009
- Meanwhile, spring showed up doing what spring does. I'd been a bit busy and missed many of the details. Or, I'd seen and heard and felt them, but forgot to log them in: robins going mad in the morning, the Scotch broom cascading with yellow flowers, the Johnson grass growing as tall as a small green child. I have not turned on the heater in about a week, which is always a shock because ...
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March 31, 2009
- sweet fellow redroomers, we're on the eve of April first, and I'm back because I really did promise myself that I would write, specifically here, everytime I felt that "pull" .. hi :)like spring, new ideas and new art and new inspirations are budding all around us'almost April oh nine' -- that's how I'm referring to this cluster of timeI'm really excited because my best friend is ...
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