I was going to title this post, “Working a Day Job and Doing Everything Else on the Side.” My everything else includes playing electric bass in a band, and finding time to read, catch up on email, and play piano (just for fun, I’m pretty new at it). Not to mention all the boring day-to-day … Continue reading Working a Day Job and Writing on the Side
Month: March 2016
Love Song
I can still hear the pencil scratch, filling in the quarter rest — a squiggle, the extra underline of eighths, staffs drawn, every dot, every line a message to decode. I want to crawl inside a quarter note and swim along the rhythm’s choppy waves that carry me to another space with no body, no people, … Continue reading Love Song
Very Punny
Just had to share this link. Puns for poets: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ninamohan/puns-that-will-satisfy-all-poetry-nerds#.gf6mGqxr1
Self-Portrait
I am a Picasso painting Perspective shattered then glued back together, but the parts are all mixed up trapped in 2D, framed frozen into almost unrecognizable likeness One eye sees outward the other is sideways I see only two flat parts of a round world My leg is over there, but my torso is here … Continue reading Self-Portrait
Saying Yes (even when you don’t think you’re ready)
Right now I’m saying yes to something. Something that scares the living daylights out of me. I’ve decided to start a blog. It’s scary for a lot of reasons, but the biggest thing that keeps running through my head (and has for years) is – I’m not ready. I’m not ready because I don’t know … Continue reading Saying Yes (even when you don’t think you’re ready)
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