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It smells like beauty here. I rolled the window down an inch and let the wind mess up my hair. I just spent a half hour with a flat iron fighting the frizz but I don’t care much. The dirt and mushroom odor slid in over the glass while a […]
Forest Commuter Poetry Not Fast Enough Two small quick birds flared in my headlights (finches, I think). I hoped for them and felt no impact. Drove on to town and parked to get my coffee. I forgot to to check the grille. I Brake for Deer […]
Thinking. Learning some. Stuff I’ve learned: I’m lazy, selfish and self-centered. Self-concious (as evidenced right here). Other times, thankfully, I’m the opposite. I like that me better. Sometimes I want praise. Praise makes me uncomfortable. I hate being new. I like being known. I don’t need to be the center […]
N of 45 Windy today. Waves on the lake. I am all talked out. Curtis, Michigan is a good place and so is AnnMarie Rowland’s N of 45 writers’ retreat. A grand mixture of writing styles, genres, with participants sixteen to eighty (or so). Good, useful sessions with terrific writers […]