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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: April 2013

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Saturday, April 20, 2013. On the last day of this terrible week. I continue to revise. I'm going to have to turn ruthless now, start removing from my thesis poems that need months of work. I need to let them sit and simmer or molt or evaporate or decompose. The thesis is not the book.). Nah I feel something when I read her work. Love this poem, for instance:. Somebody left this white T-shirt. I QUIT METH 4-EVER. Which ...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: A book response (not a review)

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Friday, March 13, 2015. A book response (not a review). You want me. You need me. Come, open me up like I’m an innocent flower.”. During one of my frequent trips to our public library, I finally approached this book’s fat spine, timidly tipped it off the shelf, shrugged my shoulders and said, “It’s time, boo, it’s time to read this.”. So I’m keeping my hungry reading brain sated. March 16, 2015 at 5:41 PM. I cant turn ...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: July 2015

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Saturday, July 11, 2015. I so love solitude, the sound only of the refrigerator, my own breathing, the cat purring, eating, digging in the litter box, occasionally my neighbors' lawnmowers. Solitude is where I can hear my own voice, figure out what it's really saying. Ah, crap. I'm trying to be too poetic. Just so I could hear other people who are totally not like me talking into my living room. There That is all.

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: December 2014

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Monday, December 8, 2014. A book in a day plus some other reading. I have been oddly blue (I think it has to do with the despair that evoked my previous post and just the stupid season. bearing down on a bad anniversary), so I decided to read my way to "less blue." I checked books out of the library earlier in the week. Mark Strand's A Blizzard of Calm. We clear a space for ourselves, a stillness where nothing. A young...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: February 2015

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Friday, February 27, 2015. What I remember may not be true. Leonard Nimoy was born the same year my father was born, but a couple of months sooner. Nineteen thirty-one. Neither of them made it to 84. Maybe it's ridiculous for me to mourn someone I never knew in person, but it's more than the person I mourn; it's what he represents. One of my main character traits. Leonard Nimoy was more than Spock, of course; he was mo...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: Mini-ice boulders and a lack of the lyric

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Monday, March 2, 2015. Mini-ice boulders and a lack of the lyric. Note: this is not a blog post, nor is it an essay; it's a journal entry that I just feel like sharing due to my terrible habit of excessive self-disclosure when I'm feeling blue.). The boiling egg pot whistles almost as if I set the eggs in my whistling tea kettle, which I did use this morning to make coffee. That’s killing me because I suddenly fe...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: February 2014

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Wednesday, February 12, 2014. 1 The car is free from the monster ice that blocked my driveway. 2 This means I no longer have an excuse not to leave my house. 3 The urge not to leave my house has been so strong, that to avoid kind social invitations from friends, I turned off my cell phone. 4 Can't accept invitations I never receive. 5 or return voice mails I haven't heard. (I'm a jerk). 7 Time for clipping. 21 Each syl...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: not a book review

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Not a book review. It's been awhile since I've written here. Or to be more accurate, it's been awhile since I've clicked "Publish" when I've written here. I just can't seem to feel anything I write is finished. I hope you don't carry those words around in your body. Also, you sure are self-absorbed). She uses too many adverbs and uses them badly [ha! I overuse adverbs and. A Facebook status upd...

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an incomplete guide to an ordinary life: August 2013

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An incomplete guide to an ordinary life. This journal is a perpetual work in progress. Friday, August 23, 2013. The empty nest or Please let me wallow or I will throw cat poop in your face. Dear Couples who plan to and want to have children,. Here’s what I learned on Thursday when her daddy and I moved her into her dorm room at the lovely Cleveland Institute of Art:. We are different now, my girl and I. And I understand that I’m supposed to feel joy, and I DO feel joy, but I also need to be sad...Just le...