The Great Bacon Scare of 2012

by | Sep 28, 2012 | Food, Thistle, Waiting

So, if you’re a big fan of pork products like I am, the news this past week proclaiming a coming bacon shortage was not welcome. Turns out though, the porkocalypse is a bunch of hogwash. Yes, the drought has caused ingredients in hog feed to rise and yes, the...

Do You Have a Vision Statement?

by | Sep 19, 2012 | Friends, Waiting

Word is, people who write down their goals do a better job of meeting those goals. Word is, knowing where you’d like to go more often results in getting there. Word is, you should have a plan and work that plan. Word is, all the cool kids have a vision...

5 Reasons to Enter Writing Contests

by | Sep 17, 2012 | Reading, Waiting

1) It makes you feel like your doing something. Entering a contest isn’t the same level of scary as querying an agent or going to a conference to pitch to editors, but it does give you a goal and a deadline. And writing to deadline is something you have to be...

Confessions of an approval junkie

by | Sep 14, 2012 | Friends, Waiting

A week ago I posted about a poetry workshop I planned to attend with Fred Chappell. He’s a pretty renowned poet and author and I was excited to be part of his class. And it was a really good class. He asked each of the 15 participants to bring three poems we...

I didn't see me do that . . .

by | Sep 12, 2012 | Friends, Waiting

A friend’s daughter is experiencing her first year of school and all that entails. The teacher communicates with parents about behavior via stickers–green for good; yellow for not so good; orange for not good; and red for call me. Well the child in...