vacations
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Over the weekend, Arden and I drove out to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. I checked into a little motel off the beaten path to ensure there’d be few distractions and then settled into get a ton of writing projects done. And I did. I wrote some book reviews, revised a ton of poems, and even
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I wanted to tell you a funny story from a few weeks back when Beau was here. We got some friends together and hopped in the Scion to visit Kings Dominion, just outside Richmond. I had initially looked up directions on Google and saw it would take, theoretically, two and a half hours (ugh). We
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AWP wasn’t what I had hoped it would be. I felt like I was trying to have a good conference and a good time in the city and failing miserably at both. Maybe some of you noticed that as I sped by you running here, there. I didn’t get to see many of the people
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It’s time. I’ve carefully selected my blazers and shirts, matched the ties, dusted off the Kenneth Coles, packed the cufflinks. I’ve recharged the camera battery, loaded up the iPod with new albums. I’ve woken up the boyfriend and told him to get his stuff together. I picked a book for the flight (Persepolis) and packed
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Some photos of my trip: My desk in my little room. Does your house have lions? What about the cutest, tiniest kittens you’ve ever seen? Don’t drink and sleigh ride. Self-portrait with poinsettias: Oaxaca’s Zócalo. Adorable stray dog. Radiohead is love…? The Zapotec ruins at Monte Alban, above the city. Our group at Monte Alban.
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Why is it no one in Phoenix sells The Wizard of Oz? Let’s put that on the list of questions I never thought I’d ask. Yesterday I won the divisional title in the first annual Piper Center Scrabble Tournament.Some fun words played: “devoted,” “elixir.” Neither played by me.I won on a technicality. What I am
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