smokingpen | October 22, 2009
I am not sure I am back . . . to blogging that is.
However, I am preparing to attend my second residency, which also means my second semester in a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
Along with that, I took a series of tests (about eight hours) to certify as a teacher in [...]
smokingpen | July 23, 2009
So, I am awake. Without details I will say I think this is a feat in and of itself. The problem is not that I can’t sleep or don’t sleep, but that things always seem to be happening around me – to include my reading and commenting on other people’s work. This means, frequently, that [...]
smokingpen | June 24, 2009
I’ve found that some of the things I want to be doing compared to many of the things I need to be doing have kept me out of a state of equilibrium for some time. Months. I like the idea of writing blog entries and have noted that the number of hits I receive a [...]
smokingpen | June 6, 2009
Which, interestingly, might be the title of a book I write at some point. However, not really the point in all of this.
Some years ago I discovered an author (I will not be sharing any names) and the author’s work. I became quickly enamored of the writing and found myself following the individual both online [...]
smokingpen | May 25, 2009
Over the weekend Erin, CAMPER, and I went to a memorial service for a friend of mine. No, he wasn’t my age. In fact, he was in his 80’s or 90’s and was someone I expected to pass on, due to complications in his health, several years ago. I expected, regardless of where I was [...]
smokingpen | May 19, 2009
I think one of the biggest disservices this generation will be tried for in the court of history is the disservice we give to our little boys. In a period of not so many years, we have moved from a position where we treat and teach boys to be boys to a practice where we [...]
smokingpen | May 18, 2009
I was at work all night. This is pretty typical as 5/7th’s of my week is spent at work between 10 pm and 6:30 am. As a result, for the 8.5 hours times 5 days I spend approximately (paid time) 40 hours and 45 hours at a place I don’t like when I am not [...]
smokingpen | May 4, 2009
Because I work at night I sleep during the day. Generally, given what time I go to bed, I sleep all day and wake up about the point where the sun is going down. Someone might connect this with being a vampire – heck, the service manager for overnights makes that connection frequently, but the [...]
