Still Here! June 4, 2021

Poor, neglected blog, I have not completely abandoned you! I’ve simply been busy, and, as many of us have learned, time behaves differently in a pandemic. I’m not sure where the past year has gone.

Exciting news: The Budlong Woods Writers, a group I’ve been a part of for many years, just published their fourth anthology of prose and poetry! I’m proud to have contributed my writing, photography, and editorial skills to this volume. I’m even on the cover, well sort of. That’s my shadow on the left.

Also, Julaiku is coming!

Hot off the presses! December 6, 2019

I’m proud to announce that one of the writing groups I’m a part of has just published our third book. This one includes, among other things, my foray into true crime poetry!

A Labor of Love

It’s available here and makes a lovely holiday gift if I do say so myself!

No Myth May 16, 2018

I’ve been a part of the Budlong Woods Writers for years now, and we just published our second collection of poetry, prose, and photography, Monsters, Myths and Other Matters. I invite you to check it out!

Forty-one Awesome Things I Did While I Was Forty-one October 24, 2016

1. Got a piggy-back ride part of the way home from a bar on my birthday
2. Got a picture of one of my cats wearing a witch hat (this had been a longstanding dream of mine)
   

   Toil and Trouble

3. Achieved a NaNoWriMo three-peat
   
4. Sipped and painted
   
5. Attended the Grilled Cheese Meltdown (yum!)
6. Made kitty plates
   
7. Saw the Van Gogh exhibit at the Art Institute
8. Attended the Cider Summit
   

   Cider: delicious and beautiful!

9. Colored Ruth Bader Ginsberg on a unicorn
   
10. Successfully escaped a room
    
11. Had fun with helium
12. Used a magical cupcake machine
    
13. Read Infinite Jest (It’s somewhat debatable whether this counts as “awesome,” but it’s definitely an accomplishment, so I’m counting it)
    

    Footnotes and all!

14. Was on TV! (I’m in the background in the orange jacket)
15. (Obviously) did more SUP yoga
    

    

    
16. Took this fierce selfie
    
17. Experimented with buttons
    
18. Experimented with lots of new hairstyles
    

    

    

    

    
19. Took an arm balance yoga workshop
20. Met a dog named Friday while with a person named Friday
21. Stayed at a goat farm in Ballyvaughn, Ireland
22. Visited the Cliffs of Moher
    

    
23. Brought a cutout of my alma mater’s founder along with me on my travels
    

    Bradley alums with Flat Lydia at the Cliffs of Moher #CelebrateLydia

24. Saw the Poulnabrone Dolmen
    
25. Visted Ailwee Cave
    
26. Visited Dunguaire Castle
27. Learned about King Puck
28. Saw a traditional Irish music session in and Irish Pub
29. Wrote limericks while in County Limerick
30. Visited Killarney National Park
31. Visited the Rock of Cashel
32. Went on a literary pub crawl in Dublin (and won a t-shirt by correctly answering the most quiz questions afterward)
33. Saw the Book of Kells
34. Took a selfie with an Irish sheep
35. Toured the Guinness Storehouse
36. Twirled a la Stevie Nicks in the Luxembourg City town square
    
37. Took a walking tour of Luxembourg City
38. Visited the Bock Casemates
39. Sang about a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg while in Luxembourg
40. Helped bring You Don’t Know Us..., the first collection of stories and poems from one of my writing groups, to publication
41. Celebrated  the Cubs’ first pennant win 71 years
    

Fun With Wordle March 19, 2014

I haven’t exactly been writing up a storm here lately. I could give you all sorts of excuses, but instead, I’ll just share the fruits of my procrastination. I created this word cloud using wordle.net and all of my publications to date.