I am super happy that Carol over at Carol's Corner is hosting this week's Poetry Friday . I started following her a year or so ...

It's Memorial Day weekend, and when you read this I'll be out hiking the Ouachita Trail in southeastern Oklahoma. But right now...

Click the image to visit this week's Poetry Friday host, Violet Nesdoly I think I will stop planning my blog posts. Every time I do...

Today's post was planned and ready to go when all of a sudden it was altered by a very unanticipated occurence. We reached our f...

Make sure to go see what Crystal is up to today! This week's Poetry Friday Link Up is hosted by Elizabeth Steinglass . For more won...

You can find more wondrous words over at Crystal's blog today! I'm sinking deep into the moment tonight. All this talk of hikin...

Hop over to check out how Crystal celebrated Cinco de Mayo today! I have a little cupboard in my heart. It holds more things than one m...

It started with a poem. Ithaca  by Constantine P. Cavafy.  This poem is the inspiration for my last assignment of the semester. Write a Jour...

Pop on over to Write.Sketch.Repeat. for more poetry! In class this week, we looked at several of Rilke's poems. Afterward, we were...

Tonight I sent in my poetry for the third assignment in the class I'm taking. I set out to write poems from the perspectives of diffe...

Tonight I'm working on poetry. This is the third assignment of four, each a little different but all focused on creativity. I decided...

Last night was another luscious night of poetry. Here's one example that might be handy in class (especially with National Poetry Mon...

Day 19 of the Slice of Life Challenge A long day. A short poem. Testing. Research. Pilates and dinner prep. Dos at the mall. Soup, divine. P...

Still tinkering with the idea of Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird . My mom's birthday was yesterday, so she's...

In class this week, we finally  dug into our first text on poetry, Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?  by Kenneth Koch. As someone that lo...

I sat forever trying to decide what to slice this evening... by 11:15 tonight these words started swirling around my head and I figured ...

It's Monday! Huzzah! It's Monday and I'm sitting at home on my big comfy couch, surrounded by books. You just gotta love a ...

Possibility. That's my one little word for 2012. It's interesting to me how one word can wrap itself around you and take on...

They grow up. Your mom warns you. "Don't blink, it all goes so quickly," she says. "One day you're changing dia...

The problem with writing is this: there are too many words, too many ideas; popping up like springtime dandelions, ripe to be carried awa...