Seven or eight consecutive days of rain must have sapped all of my creative energy because I couldn’t come up with any more blog posts this week. Maybe I will be extremely productive once the sun comes out and I turn all of this restorative water into bright new leaves and flowers of inspiration. Or, [...]
Tagged ProjectsI’m still recovering from a traumatic hiking experience in which I was attacked by a swarm of ticks. I didn’t know ticks could swarm, or appear in large numbers, or jump on me from any and all angles…they must be mutating. I feel phantom ticks all over me, even now, so I think I’m going [...]
Tagged Ain't That AmericaI haven’t talked about a Big Issue lately, so I thought I’d drop one in to the mix this week. A friend passed on a blog post/article that compares news coverage of the swine flu pandemic with coverage of domestic violence. You’ve heard all about the flu, right? How much do you know about the [...]
Tagged Ain't That AmericaI had an action-packed first weekend back in South Carolina: a beach trip, two festivals (the small-town arts and crafty types), a trip to Savannah, GA, a moonlight kayak outing, and a grand finale of watching the new Star Trek movie at a real movie theater. I’ve been surviving on Netflix for 9 months so [...]
Tagged MFA, Words, WritingI made it back to South Carolina in one piece. On Thursday I spent the morning at St. George Island State Park, near Apalachicola, and then drove through Florida and Georgia back roads up to South Carolina. That was my favorite day of the trip — St. George was empty. Completely empty. The island has [...]
Tagged TravelI drove from New Orleans to Apalachicola, Florida, today. The first third of the trip was unremarkable — Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama highways. Not much going on besides lots of trucks careening around. Once I got on to US 98 East into Florida the scenery turned from bland highways to a variety of Florida beach [...]
Tagged TravelI’m worn out after walking all over the French Quarter and Warehouse District today, so I think I’ll just post a few random observations and pics. There are more photos to hit Flickr eventually…I’ll have to upload the rest later.
Bourbon Street at about 10 a.m. is fun, but not like you’d expect Bourbon Street to [...]
The Nashville-New Orleans drive was a lot of fun. A little rainy at the start, so I didn’t spend much time exploring. Therefore, not many pictures. I only have two of any worth…the others are mostly shots of highways, and highways look about the same everywhere. I did have an interesting GPS experience, wherein I [...]
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