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I start to settle down. First, it feels like this: a long breath, full body and whole, exhaled coincidentally with a gust of wind that catches in the tall tulip poplars. Then, it feels like the [...]

I make the decision to send my 4th MFA packet as it is. I’ve been plugging away on a new fiction piece all weekend, but it’s slow going and I don’t want to rush it. I can feel my mind leaving the [...]

Sleep is slow in coming all week and when it does, it lasts but a few hours. Today at work, three people asked me what was wrong, indicating my eyes – which have grown so pink across the whites [...]

It’s so difficult to measure progress when its work is slow and deeply buried, down, down into the earliest stages of the writing progress. I know I’ve changed significantly this semester—and [...]

It’s as simple as direct communication. Imagine that! Where he can say something like: “Please don’t feel discouraged by how much time I have left to put into this project. I’ve just got to get [...]

Today, I ate a handful of candy corn at work and it felt like doing drugs. It’s one of those blessed and cursed holiday goodies that feels so good but is just so, so bad. And there’s no one to [...]

Sorry. I had to be MIA for a few days. I think the dial-up connection is finally pushing my patience to the brink. Also, dating is taking up lots of time! Imagine that! Sad to think I’d been [...]

Good news folks! I got a poem accepted by Perigee, the literary journal, today! It will come out next week and is available online, so I will share the URL once I have it. No, this was not from [...]

Ok. Here is another lyrical essay. It’s hard to figure out how to deal with time and perspective of this one, since I wanted to maintain the perspective a of young girl, but the story has [...]