Happy Easter! I'll be hopping away for a week and will be back April 3 to give you the latest on Solace in So Many Words contributors and other news. In the meantime, if you have something you'd like to share here, please send it to me at weighedwords at gmail.com Peace, love, and solace … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
Happy Taxonomy Day!
I just learned that March 19 is Taxonomy Day (thanks to artist Lauren Levato Coyne). My Internet connection has been wonky lately, suffering fits and starts. So I didn't want to do a post with lots of links because it would take forever to write and post. But since I have a poem with the subtitle "Taxonomy," I'll post that instead. In 2003, it was awarded second place in The Twenty-Fifth Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards, sponsored by the Evanston Public Library. … [Read more...]
Go vote (and then read this)
Howdy! Hope you visited your polling place or have plans to do so today. How lucky we are to live in a country where we have a vote--don't let it go to waste. This weekend I learned about two great literary things in Chicago. The first is Open Books, which has West Loop and Pilsen locations. The organization collects and then re-sells used books in its bookstores to fund the various writing programs and workshops it hosts for Chicago youth. Are you spring cleaning? … [Read more...]
Glimpse of solace: Oh my world
Hey there. I escaped with my camera this week and got lost in photography, which is very easy to do when you are working on something abstract. Here's what I came up. Peace, love, and solace … [Read more...]