New in .poetry: “Carlos” and, sadly, there is a story to go with this one. Last night I got an e-mail about local events coming up in Toledo from an e-mail list I never signed up for. Since it’s at least more relevant to me than the other spam I get, I checked it out, only to find one of the events listed for this Saturday is a memorial reading for Rane Arroyo. Rane Arroyo was my poetry professor at the University of Toledo, and…
New in .photography: Early spring colours at the Toledo Botanical Garden. I shot these photos during my trip there yesterday, right in between a cold snap and a heat wave when the temperature was just right, the sun was shining, the breeze was deliciously cool, and I had to deal with a lot of people there. I still think I got a pretty good set of photos, though. As always, feedback is appreciated.
New in the .journal: Climbing the mountain. After finishing the first draft of my first novel yesterday, I thought it was important to look back at my writing and see how far I’ve come, while still recognizing all the hard work I still have to do just for this one project alone. Believe me, I have a lot of work still to do, but after completing such a huge step, it’s hard not to take a step back and appreciate how far I’ve come.
If you can read this, then you should be able to access the new .org, if you aren’t reading it on the Website already. This past weekend I got WordPress configured on the new server space from Laughing Squid, finished the redesign of the page templates I’d started on my old server, and started moving older pages to WordPress. There’s still work to do — I still need to move other pages over, there are page design issues I’m still sorting out (my inexperience with…
This will be the 1,934th post to my blog since I started blogging back in 2001. It will also be the last post, for the .org anyway, made using Blogger. Earlier this year, Google, which picked up Blogger several years ago, announced that they were discontinuing FTP service for Blogger. Since 2002, when I first integrated my blog into the .org (I had a BlogSpot URL before then for the blog, separate from the .org), I’ve been using Blogger to update my Website, save for…