Life and Stuff

I feel as though I’m emerging from an illness. Definitely more pale—that’s frightening, isn’t it. Definitely feeling a little mooshy—haven’t done my proper weightlifting workouts as I should. Swimming doesn’t exactly build muscularity, so it’s back to the gym I go for a normal workout again.
But, my NaNoWriMo novel is finished. And it did it […]

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I know it sounds really sick, but I’m actually enjoying the delayed gratification of winning NaNoWriMo close to the last day. I had to slow myself down today, savor the story, even do a little bit of editing. I’m sure that those of us doing this in the blogosphere will have plenty to say about […]

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Susan and Ernie had their beautiful daughter, Libby, today. These poets, I swear. Definitely makers of the cutest babies.
A Meeting
She steps into the dark swamp
where the long wait ends.
The secret slippery package
drops to the weeds.
She leans her long neck and tongues it
between breaths slack with exhaustion
and after a while it rises and becomes a creature
like […]

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I’ll be so up for this again…in a year. Hooray for liquid nutrition, crackers and dip. Because that’s about what I’ve eaten for a month. Pros: little squeezy spot on my belly–gone! Cons: have to take in pants sometime next week. Am pulling off jeans without unbuttoning them now.

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