I’m going to detail the specifics of the giveway first before I get into the post I wrote on the plane last night, ruminating on my general dislike of flying. So you don’t have to read further unless you’re interested.
Goody Giveway:
Anyone who posts a comment on this site between today and December 19 will be entered [...]
Entries from November 2007
November 19, 2007
Thoughts at 35,000 feet, and naming the goodies
November 17, 2007
Wordamour Goody Giveaway: A Teaser
Posts have been lean this week as I’ve been at the National Writing Project conference since Wednesday and they’ve kept me running. Spent yesterday at an NWP Rural Sites Network workshop about site bibliographies that was amazing (NWPCA leadership team: I’m thinking I could modify this for a great leadership retreat). Today was the General [...]
November 12, 2007
Arkansas Literary Forum. . .and, a contest!
The Arkansas Literary Forum, the annual online journal of Arkansas writing edited by Marck Beggs, has hit the wires, so to speak. And what a liteary smorgasboard. Great stuff from great writers, too many to list without repeating the table of contents. A special section by and about Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis [...]
November 7, 2007
Readings, Standing Ovations and Once More to the Pokemon Shirt
Every act of violence is a betrayal of language.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Nye gave a reading here last night and finished with a lullabye about a chicken that drew a well deserved standing ovation. Her reading was so powerful I’m almost at a loss for words. Suffice it to say that she told us that she [...]
November 5, 2007
Big learning curves: with writing and blogging (and a tidbit about Natalie Wood)
Learning curve re: blogging (among many): Pat Walsh sent me a comment thanking me for the review and I can neither find it or see that I approved it for posting on this blog. Not sure how I did this but, Pat Walsh, if you’re surfing the web again and find this blog, can you re-send? [...]
