Commentary: On Cozy Blankets
The picture shows how I felt at the start of this year: exhausted, nestled warmly and comfortably in the sand, hiding under a blanket from the enormity of the sky and the sea…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
From all of me to all of you, I hope you have a fantastic Christmas and/or holiday season, whatever you celebrate! The Quantum Cats and I are very cozy and figuring out our next moves. A little R&R is on the docket, and while I don’t expect to get a lot of words on the page over the next week, I am sure to do a lot of thinking, and that’s almost as important…right? Or maybe that’s my gift to myself! And now, I must return to an evening of Reindeer Games with the extended River family! By way of compensation, here’s a Christmas limerick: There once was a man with a sledIn December, he dressed all in redHe brought gifts to the goodLike a sled made of…
Election Day Update
Today is a distracted sort of day, not only in and of itself, but in the culmination of so many distracted days in the last weeks and months. The world feels uneasy and uncertain…
Commentary: Deadlines and Other Imaginary Animals
I am consciously missing today’s publishing deadline for the first time since I started regular updates last year, and…mixed feelings.
Updates and Promotion
Hey hey…little housekeeping update. I’ve done a good amount of site cleanup and maintenance, and while there’s always more to do, the site is “live” for all intents and purposes. There are links to my social profiles, everything is categorized, and I’ve created enough content that I can stick to a weekly update schedule (every Tuesday at 11 am eastern). As far as content, this site is the hub; I’ll publish some types of content (like video) on other platforms, but my intention is to have it all linked from here. For example, I’ll be doing readings of poetry as video content on TikTok, and I’ll add links to those performances on the blog posts (and I’ll flag them as such so you can find them). Speaking of…
waxing poetic
I’m hesitant to say that what I’m finding myself writing is Poetry, or any good, but it does follow the pattern of what poetry is generally accepted to be (structurally at least). So, in the interest of not being too disgustingly self-deprecating, I will say it: I’m writing poetry. A lot of it. And I’m really enjoying it, more than I expected.
ideas: personal Graceland tour
We went to Graceland a few years ago and it was interesting to see basically a normal working home turned into a museum. It got me thinking, how interesting would it be to do that in your own home? Basically, create a “typical American household in the year X” exhibit. You would set up some ropes to guide people through the place from room to room. Put up little placards around typical household items explaining that this is a “tv remote control” or “stack of folded laundry” or “door mat” or whatever. Describe the items: “Whereas earlier television sets required viewers to make adjustments to volume or channel on the sets themselves, remote controls allowed watchers to make these adjustments from the comfort of their own couches. The…
