MoodyTunes

I’m about to make another trip from Tennessee to South Carolina, and I’ve assigned myself a random project: I must listen to audio books along the way. Maybe not the whole way, but I want to make it through at least one recording of someone reading a story to me without tuning out after 4 [...]

For some reason I can’t explain, no dentist has ever told me to floss. I’ve even asked a few times, and they just say, “Ehh, well, if you want to, sure, whatever.” Growing up, it seemed like everyone around me had dentists yelling at them. Parents, friends, random people on the street — they all [...]

I’m fighting a cough — it’s been hanging around for over a week now. Last week, I tried some cough medicine but stopped using it because Friday turned into a very strange day. I was loopy. I couldn’t stop talking…and that’s not good if you’re teaching class and participating in mock interviews. Then I woke [...]

Last week, the night before my birthday, I had a dream in which I ran around saying “I’m turning 34! 3 plus 4 equals lucky!” I thought it was the funniest thing in the world (in the dream) and I still think it’s funny to say. However, now that I’m actually 34 it’s more like [...]

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, [...]

I had to channel my creative energies elsewhere this year, so here is a link to the 2009 Washington Post Peep Show. There are some great submissions this year.
I still want to take my Peep buddies out to Nashville’s faux-Parthenon. That might be my Easter Sunday project.

I was thinking about my spring/summer plans a few weeks ago and my first thought was to develop a Writing Plan. I’m always imagining great Writing Plans, those capital-P Plans through which I carve out a large section of the next 6 to 12 months and devote it to numerous Writing Projects. I’ve never been [...]

I haven’t talked about my desire to get a tattoo much, but it’s something I’ve thought about for a long time. There seem to be (at least) two different styles and/or mindsets among tattooed folk — some people like graphic art or illustrations, some people lean more toward symbols. I know that’s a huge generalization. [...]