Lifelines Poetry Anthology Released Today!

Lifelines poetry anthology by the Poetic Muselings, published by Inkspotter Publishing is available today on Amazon.com. The poets are Michele M. Graf, Margaret Fieland, Anne Westlund, Mary W. Jensen, Lin Neiswender and Kristen Howe.  The cover collage is by Lin Neiswender.

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Fall Update

School:  I have the week off, fall break.  This is definitely a good thing for a number of reasons.  One, my computer is giving me grief.  Two, you'll see below under life.  Three, I've got to set up for the kiddies for Halloween at the Convention center tomorrow afternoon.  I'm thinking about dressing up as a kitty for Halloween.  I've just got to figure out the ears... 

I've been working on an embroidery project for Buddhism for a month now.  That's way too long.  All those french knots are really getting to me.  Ancient Rites, the Shamanism program I'm still in is going well; we're on the second year of that.  Tarot is going slowly.  Runes Practicum is going very slowly.  And I'm completely lost in Ecology.  Such is life!

Life:  I'm getting published!  The online poetry group I'm involved in is publishing a book of poetry with a small press out of Canada.  Not only that, I'm getting published in my grad school's journal, five poems and two or three pictures!  This is so awesome!  Mom says she wants to buy 15 copies of the poetry collection, hard copy.  Wonderful support!  Well, we are finalizing the book, should be out soon.  The journal is going to come out Mid-November.

My boyfriend is finally admitting he's my boyfriend, so that's a step in the right direction.  Of course it helped that I announced I was his girlfriend!  Life is strange.  :) 

Fair Pictures

Reggie, Benjamin, Mom and I went to the fair last weekend.  Here are some pictures!

The Doldrums

It's been a crappy couple of weeks.  I don't know exactly what's wrong.  Family tensions.  Obligations.  A garage sale.  I haven't done my homework for a couple weeks.  Just can't seem to concentrate.  I've done crafts and a little bit of writing, but that's about it.  And mindless surfing the web has been happening too.  :(  It's like I'm in the Doldrums with no wind and no direction.  Not that there hasn't been anything good.  I stayed up until 4am talking to my brother last night.  Mostly we talked about our extended family and school.  I started typing up a play that I thought I was never going to touch again.  It's called The Victorians. I'm not depressed, just very scattered.

May 4th

Today would have been my dad's birthday, if he was still around.  We toasted him tonight with cheap Rose.  He would have liked that.  I had a lazy day today.  I didn't get anything done homework wise.

Got my crafty stuff organized and purged.  Now I have some stuff to get rid of, not a lot.  Just some beads, embroidery floss, an iron-on pattern and a few other things ready to go.  I messaged a woman on coachcreativespace who needs craft supplies.  I found my papercrafting scissors tonight, which is really nice.  I've been finishing up old craft projects lately which is really unusual for me to do.  I mean, I usually let them languish. 

Haven't done much writing lately.  Went to the library and checked out a Stephen King short story book.  This is really brave of me as I read fiction very very slowly.  I'm going to reward myself every time I read two short stories.  I think I may have ADHD, but there's no way I'm going on more drugs just for that.  I'm on enough drugs (legal ones) already!

Imaginary Deadlines for Real Homework

Easter went well.  I had a rough couple of days on Friday and Saturday, family conflicts.  I'm shifting gears a little bit.  Starting an ecology class this week, self-study.  I think that makes all my courses self-study right now.  I'm doing better with the imaginary Friday (homework) and Sunday (response) deadlines.  I'm so tired today!  My cat threw up hairballs last night, 3 times!  I gave up sleeping after that.  I watched Lilo and Stitch and embroidered.  Went to bed at 5am.

We had our second Crafternoon at church.  This time two ladies joined me.  Last week it was just me and Mom.  It was OK.  I finished two motifs on my jacket of peacock feathers.  I wonder if it's a talent to know how to function when you can't really function.  I know now I can embroider for two hours on five hours of sleep!  I might have to bag the April PAD poems.  I hate giving up.  I've only written 6 and posted 5.  We'll see.

What's more interesting is what I'm not writing about.  Probably.  Not really.  Tease!

Good News

I'm completely finished with New Testament class!  All I'm waiting for is my final grade, then I can sign up for another class.  My best friend, Star, has just started taking classes in computers, online.  I'm so proud of her!  Tonight I finished revising all 24 Rune Poems.  Yay!  I'm planning on self-publishing a book of Rune Poems.  I still have more work to do on it.  I've made major headway.