What Are Your Plans For National Poetry Month? It will be difficult to exceed the release of an indie-published book I had last year. Last week, I read a post from Mary Lee Hahn about her plans for National Poetry Month. She was considering different forms of poetry to focus on during April. Over the years, I’ve realized it…
I’ve done a lot of reflective thinking lately. About life. About my hobbies. About my writing. And about poetry. I am at a point of change. I realize I need new hobbies and desire to learn something new. I realize that I am more of an essayist than a poet. I love poetry and will…
It’s Poetry Friday and crazy to think that our Ireland trip was almost a month ago already. If you want to know what Poetry Friday is check out this explanation by children’s author and poet Rene La Tullippe. I’ve started to write some poems about our experience there – one focused on The Burren landscape,…
It’s been a few weeks since I participated in Poetry Friday. Mostly, that’s because we’ve been getting ready for a vacation and then traveling. Where did we go? We spent two weeks in Ireland! Our trip was in three parts: The trip came about last spring when I was planning for us to go to…
Wow! The end of July and the beginning of August have been busy. We had lots of visitors in July. Two different couples came up for two different weekends mid-month and before that, our boys were here for the Fourth of July holiday. Near the end of the month, we hopped in the car with…
A diary-style post Whew! It’s been a week! June itself has whizzed by, creating a “what happened to that month” feeling. I decided to record what happened in a diary-style post today. Earlier this month On June 8th I flew to New York to see my Dad. Many of you read about that visit. I…
It is Poetry Friday! If you want to know what Poetry Friday is check out this explanation from Renee M. LaTulippe. Today, our host is Linda Mitchell on her blog A Word Edgewise. who is offering a clunker challenge. I’m in! Thank you for hosting, Linda! I wrote a post of gratitude yesterday for all…
Today’s post is a mish-mash. It contains a lot of disparate information but it’s all related to writing and publishing! First, the tip of the day: As an author-publisher allow yourself to fill in the gaps in the work you produce but don’t put yourself last. What do I mean by this? As I explained…
It’s been a wild April. Obviously, I have fallen short of posting publishing tips every day for National Poetry Month. But, I am giving myself some grace, knowing that I have done something worthwhile every day this month. Tip #11: Make Every Day Count April 1-9: Visiting our family in New York State April 7th:…
I figured I would write a Poetry Friday post this week because I’ve missed posting to a couple of them. Janice Scully is our host this week on her blog Salt City Verse. Please visit her page for her poem about Democracy and some Christmas Cheer as well. Janice will be one of the featured…