Tonight’s another one of those nights when my thoughts are all over the place and the temptation to resort to lists is high. I’ve been thinking about the whole job thing (old job and having to get a new job). I went for a walk after dinner. My walks are usually down Main Street and…
Category: Life
SIDDHARTHA AND THE RIVER
I’m a slow reader with a piss-poor attention span. I don’t really know how to skim, and I tend to like words too much to want to skim. I sometimes think I like poetry because it’s manageable. I’m a little more than half-way done reading Siddhartha – a book most people could read in a…
FROM DOGS TO GLASS ANIMALS
I hadn’t planned on starting this post with a video…. in fact the plan was to end with a live performance video of Glass Animals – since that’s who I’ll be seeing in Kentucky in June (ever the optimist of having someone to take with me, I bought two tickets). When I went to the…
LITTLE ROCK
In an effort to not let a slow Friday bleed in to Saturday, and partly because I didn’t leave the apartment yesterday, I took a road trip to Little Rock, Arkansas today. It’s about a two hour drive from Memphis – a straight shot west on Interstate 40. I passed through a lot of flat…
BIRTHDAY BONANZA
Today is a birthday bonanza. I know at least four people who have birthdays today – including my ex-wife. Facebook will remind me to send birthday wishes – I’m not always good at that and I usually ignore Facebook. Aside from the occasional social media “like,” I’m not really in contact with many or any…
UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER
I haven’t been posting much in the morning this week. There’s no real reason for this other than I haven’t been writing as much in the morning – or what I’ve been writing hasn’t been finished. I’ve been reading a little bit about how different writers work and what they consider to be good output….
BICKERING: PERIMENOPAUSE
How I feel at the moment is the opposite of flow (and no, that is not a period pun, I wrote the title after I wrote the blog post). I’ve been having a tough time communicating with my friend Lisa lately. It seems that she’s been distant for a little more than a week –…
MORE THAN ERROR, LESS THAN PROVIDENCE
Words have come and gone. I’ve felt quiet. The night has been long without music and drink – intentionally so. My habit, if I write or paint or read, has been to have a glass or two of wine to ease in to things. When I first moved to Memphis, I went out several nights…
LEAP DAY
Last night I went out with my friend Katherine and then met up with Stacy. Katherine bought dinner and drinks – apparently she thinks she owed me from last time. We ended up at Ernestine & Hazel’s where she thought a guy was cute. She left early, and then texted and asked me to find…
FISH BRAIN
For as prolific and almost buoyant as I felt two days ago, I didn’t write at all yesterday. I’m not even sure I jotted down a single note. Instead, I suppose, it was a day of intake (books, articles, videos, experiences, sunshine). I spent my morning taking care of some bills. I lost my main…
A MOMENT
Sitting on the sofa reading poetry I had just been laughing over the lines “If gratuitous suffering paid even minimum wage,/ and Carrie kept track of the hours,/ she could be behind the wheel of a late model car by now,” Of course I loved the wry turn of phrase. I paused and thought how…
LOVE DON’T PAY THE BILLS
I allow myself posts like last night’s because while they feel a little embarrassing (as if I’ve made no progress), they continue the theme of growth as an iterative process that is by no means linear. I’ve spent the earliest parts of my morning re-reading and editing – I’m not a huge fan of the…