Confession Tuesday
Happy spring, and happy Confession Tuesday everyone! Share a little bit of yourself with us, and be sure to check out your fellow sinners in The Confessional!
My mom’s having surgery tomorrow. Please keep her in your thoughts. I’m flying to Virginia on Saturday and will be down there with my parents for almost a week.
This is one of those only-child moments I’ve dreaded for as long as I can remember: taking care of ailing parents. *Sigh* It just would be nice to have a brother or sister to share my emotions in a time like this. Nuff said.
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I'm compartmentalizing more emotions now than I can count. This is hard.
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Gearing up for National Poetry Month and writing a poem a day. What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment. Besides, I subscribe to the "success in failure" theory. Even if I only one-third of my poems become drafts, that's 10 poems I would have never written without the push.
Currently, I'm working on a few poems, but nothing I love enough to call a draft. April can't come soon enough.
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One nice thing happening now is that I'm starting to put together press kits. And, yes, I'm finally starting to contact organizations and institutions about readings in late 2009 and in 2010. It's exciting to think that I'll have the opportunity to travel and meet people from different parts of the country--because of poetry! Of course, much of this will be on my own dime, but I like to travel. So being able to travel on behalf of poetry really is a wonderful opportunity.
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Wanted to watch the season finale of Jon and Kate Plus Eight last night, but I'm not sure if the show aired as scheduled. From the promos, it looks as if Jon and Kate's marriage is in trouble. Hope they can get past their difficulties and rekindle the love that brought them together.
OK, that's really sappy. But I'm rooting for this couple and their family.
My mom’s having surgery tomorrow. Please keep her in your thoughts. I’m flying to Virginia on Saturday and will be down there with my parents for almost a week.
This is one of those only-child moments I’ve dreaded for as long as I can remember: taking care of ailing parents. *Sigh* It just would be nice to have a brother or sister to share my emotions in a time like this. Nuff said.
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I'm compartmentalizing more emotions now than I can count. This is hard.
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Gearing up for National Poetry Month and writing a poem a day. What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment. Besides, I subscribe to the "success in failure" theory. Even if I only one-third of my poems become drafts, that's 10 poems I would have never written without the push.
Currently, I'm working on a few poems, but nothing I love enough to call a draft. April can't come soon enough.
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One nice thing happening now is that I'm starting to put together press kits. And, yes, I'm finally starting to contact organizations and institutions about readings in late 2009 and in 2010. It's exciting to think that I'll have the opportunity to travel and meet people from different parts of the country--because of poetry! Of course, much of this will be on my own dime, but I like to travel. So being able to travel on behalf of poetry really is a wonderful opportunity.
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Wanted to watch the season finale of Jon and Kate Plus Eight last night, but I'm not sure if the show aired as scheduled. From the promos, it looks as if Jon and Kate's marriage is in trouble. Hope they can get past their difficulties and rekindle the love that brought them together.
OK, that's really sappy. But I'm rooting for this couple and their family.
Comments
Holding your mom in the light.
I'm going to join you for the poetry challenge. I don't even know if I can write everyday, but I'm going to try. We don't have to share our daily grunts do we? What an image huh? lol
I'd love to read a review copy and interview you when you're ready.
Hang in there.
When the book is out (Oct/Nov), I'll definitely send you a review copy. And I'll take you up on your offer for an interview.
I've posted my confessions. But you have other things to think about. Hugs and good thoughts. And more.
I'll be thinking about you and your mom.
Holler if you're fixing to head west for your book tour.
Re John and Kate... I just can't get into that show. If I wanted to watch people bicker, I could just sit in my own living room. Just kidding. But it seriously seems to be about the logistics of getting the kids somewhere, and then watching the parents fight...
Hang in there.
oh -- and if you're not allergic to cats or dogs, you'd be welcome to stay here if you come to upstate on your book tour!
just this afternoon, i returned from a trip to maine to visit my mom. i'll confess (hopefully) later tonight.
If you ever find yourself in SF for the book tour, call me!
Also here's mine: confession tuesday
I'll call you tomorrow. I thought her surgery was next week!!!
Sorry, bad BFF.
-K
I'm sucking it up for NaPoWriMo, too. And, dare I say it, I'm both excited and scared.
It's been weeks since my last confession, but who's counting?