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Caffeinated Daydreams

When I look up
To rest my eyes,
I swear I cannot see.
Not window pane
Nor passing car;
Just thoughts inside of me.
Darkness dazzling
Empty spaces
’round a vivid voice.
Words and pictures
Skitter scatter
Amidst creative choice.
I swear I dream
While Im awake,
My eyes exposed to light.
And what I chase
Within that dream,
I know means more than sight.

This poem © 2007 by me

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What’s Old is New

I’ve been perusing my old literature book, a compendium of fiction, poetry and drama. Sometimes I still forget how wonderful classic fiction is. The Brothers Grimm, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, and, most recently, Alice Walker.
Alice Walker’s Everyday Use is a short story I can easily relate to. It explores a matter [...]

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interview at Random House

Last Thursday was a big day for me. It was my first big interview - at the largest trade book publisher in the world, Random House, Inc. You couldn’t imagine how excited I was, even though the interview was for a production position and not an editorial one. I was not really [...]

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