Summer is Here, Bring on the Sun and Literature
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the awesomeness of April’s National Poetry Month, highlighting my extreme gratefulness to have...
Food, Family, & Feelings: Doin' What You Gotta Do
I could eat chorizo con huevos, papas y tortillas for breakfast every morning, if I had the time. By which I mean I am not currently, nor...
First Official Guest Post! - Monsters in the Classroom: Handling Homophobia
I am incredibly excited and honored to introduce you to Jessica Sowards, a teacher/writer/artist I am honored to call my colleague and...
Memory, M&Ms, and What the Body Holds
Happy New Year! I know it’s a few weeks after the horrible pressure to have fun, look nice, and stay up past the ball dropping that is...
'Tis Labor Day!
A day where people remember laboring by not laboring. But that’s because we’re not celebrating working exactly, but the people who do the...
Happy Birthday, All Day, Talking!
Today is a very special day. Well, yesterday was a very special day, but with fall semester preparations, family phone chats, bathing...
Small Press Fest, Live Music, & A Little Heart Opening
This weekend I went to this awesome new literary festival called Small Prestivus, books for the rest of us, a celebration of small...
Poetry Out in the World! or My Little Summer Trip
I just recently returned from a little summer trip. It was not a vacation, as I spent the first nine days working (save for two travel...
"Your Love Don't Pay My Bills" - A Meditation on Money
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m a cheap-ass bitch. For real. Tight-fisted, frugal, not quite miserly, but maybe verging on the edge of...
Forced Relaxation (a.k.a. The Tooth Malady)
I have never before in my life, and will probably never again, write this sentence: I’m kinda glad for the atrocious mouth pain I...
