Category Archives: personal

.poetry update

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…

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Unsolved Mysteries

People who have followed my writing for any length of time know that I have a real knack for saying and doing things to embarrass myself.  I’d like to think that this is something I’ve gotten better at over the years, but really I just think I’ve gotten better at hiding it when it happens.  As hard as this may be for some of you to believe, I was actually worse at this when I was younger, as my perpetual naïvete on a variety of…

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Speak to me in a language I can hear

I’m still thirty-three for a couple of more hours. Shaddup. The Goddess blessed me today with a warm and sunny day. I was even able to hold class outside for the first time this calendar year, and I’ve got my window open as I type this up. As I normally do, I’ve spent much of my birthday in meditation, thinking about this past year and all the changes that have happened. Between Mom and I having health problems, Aunt Jo’s death, and all the changes…

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Growing

It would figure that after getting back to a regular blogging schedule last month, I’d go nearly the entire month this month without posting anything. Given that I need to change to a new content system for the .org now that Blogger is ending FTP support (I’m assuming I’ll have to install WordPress, or rather bribe someone into installing it for me), this is doubly disturbing. My Spring Break started today, though — as usual in Toledo, with several inches of snow on the ground…

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Lack of Enthusiasm

Looking back at the past year, which was easily the most anemic ever in terms of how much I worked on the .org, it’s clear that I’ve lost enthusiasm for a lot of the political stuff I’ve been so interested in for so long. I entered the year eager to see how Obama would handle himself at the start of his presidency, and I have to admit that I let my hopes get up after his inauguration speech, when he delivered a pretty stinging rebuke…

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