I really need to shave my legs, but there is a colony of spiders who have taken up residence in the bathtub, and I don't want to disturb them.

Jenny and I share a birthday today! Tuna for her and cake for me! 🍦🎂🧁🥧🍰

ICYMI

I blew a tire this morning. Thanks Georgia roads!

It's that time of year! Atlanta Review seeks your poetry for our annual Poetry International Contest! See guidelines and submit at atlantareview.submittable.com.

Two rejections back-to-back today. At least one "got to the final round." That's something. ONWARD!!

I just checked my retirement for the first time in a while, and I've lost $20K since last July. Thanks, Dump.

I just had to charge 54 cents because there was no other way to pay that "outstanding" amount to my doctor. I mean REALLY???

Nothing like the sound of a cat horking on your bed to jolt you out of a dead sleep.

It is so passive aggressive how our next door neighbor blows the leaves from our trees that fell in his yard back into our yard.

Why am I the only PhD type who forgets what heuristics and gestalt mean?

I know the world is going to perdition right now, but some of you may have aging parents, and this article seemed useful (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

Found a dead moth in my salad. I am scarred for life. 🤮

Having a severe case of #AWP FOMO.

I'm watching my neighbor decimate a quince bush which is technically on his property but is in front of my eyeline out my front window and my heart is breaking.

My writer's block is so bad, I can't think of anything cool enough to share.

For the last two days I've been feeling run down and puny. My eyes and nose are running and I'm coughing today. I really just want to go home and go to bed. This is the longest day ever.

Having a hard time keeping my eyes open today.

I am going to write a poem today! What are you writing this weekend? #poetry #amwriting

I went to The Bad Place to engage with an airline company because I could not reach them via website, app, or phone. They responded because I called them out online, but they didn't fix my issue. Grrrr.

Ugh, starting the year off with a rejection. (Like really, they couldn't have waited until tomorrow???) #poetry #poem

Happy New Year all you wonderful people!

Two new poems up at January House Literary Journal! #poetry #poems #writing

A blog post about my Dad:

It's so hard saying goodbye to Christmas...

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Our chapbook competition is open! Send us your work! A $25 fee includes a copy of the winning chapbook! See guidelines at altantareview.submittable.com!

From earlier in the year, though I only just saw it had been published.... #poetry

I was just given the pat down of my life at the tiny Shreveport Regional Airport. Apparently security is inversely proportional to the size of the airport. 🙄

Mom and I are listening to Christmas zydeco music and the Cajun Night Before Christmas on the radio.

Being home at my Mom's reminds me how much I miss having a piano to play. At some point I'll move the piano into my home in GA, and then I'll start taking lessons again.

I nominate the Epstein files we got for worst blackout poetry of the year.

Looked through a pack of old pictures of my Dad from 3 months to somewhere in his early 60s. Here's a pic of my Dad from August 1982. So much hair!

Took my Mom to see Wicked: for Good. I've never seen a sequel where they assumed you had seen the original this much. My Mom, who had not seen Part 1 was completely flummoxed.

I'm flying home to spend some time with my Mom. But I'll probably have to go over to Dad's too and clear out some of his junk. It seems so strange that he's not around anymore, and all that's left are the things in the house he collected. 😢

Spending the day reading students' final portfolios. They are all mostly very good... which makes my life so much easier!

Sitting in Kaldi's Coffee and "We are the World" comes on. All of the sudden, when Whitney Houston sings her part, four women sing along with her! It was so joyful and meaningful!

My Dad has been gone 2 days, and somehow the world continues to turn. Happy Thanksgiving Dad, hope you're enjoying some turkey in the afterlife.

From the "this is gross and not something you see every day" files: C's toilet overflowed, and today the plumber pulled a DEAD RAT out. So creepy!!! And horrible!

Dickinson tells us hope is the thing with feathers.... so I'm hoping a poetry acceptance will wing its way over to me. (And to you too!)

I'm having such a hard time getting motivated today. I kind of wonder if I'm not coming down with something.

I saw my Dad in the hospital yesterday. He looks so small and weak. I fear it won't be long.

I am writing a promotion letter today for someone who absolutely deserves it. It's exciting to see all of the person's accomplishments--but so hard to boil down into two pages!

Why are chewable vitamin C tablets so big and so awful-tasting?

Drinking a couple of drams of whisky to help ease some physical pain I'm in... first whisky I've drunk since I left Scotland. Glenmorangie 14 year, Port Cask finish. Delish!

My father has been put in palliative care.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the cage – And sings the taunting songs – That never stop – Yet, tonight, tonight – When you sleep – I will eat it.

Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻 🎃 👻 🎃

One of the professors here at school--someone I admired and cherished--a poet, died of cancer this morning. He was one of my favorite people and someone who was like a beloved uncle. He walks with angels now.