Daily Archive: May 11, 2006

11
May
2006

POETRY THURSDAY

A great many of my favorite authors are also poets, and if they’re not poets, then they’re as wordsmithy AS poets, and often they use snippets and quotations and poetry in their books, to head chapters or reference or set a mood. This one is in the endpiece of Sheri S. Tepper’s Sideshow. She’s a favorite because her books are NEVER predictable. I like predictability in my real life (to a certain extent, and even to a CERTAIN extent, if you know what I mean) but I don’t like it in my reading.* Anyway, this poem struck me like a...

11
May
2006

PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

Every time I feel down, like things aren’t going my way, like people aren’t commenting on my journal (like no one wants to hear what I have to say), when I’m snappy and grumpy and everyone is causing problems and my relationships are rocky and my children are driving me nuts, that’s when the Universe invariably gets out her big cluestick and whaps me on the back of the head with it. It’s been like that lately. Feeling off-kilter, feeling a bit down and not sure why. On edge. Stage fright this far in advance of my a capella solo...