• Fiction,  HotHooksContest,  LooseId,  Personal,  TheDungeonGourmet,  writing

    Hot Hookers -Last day

    Flickr Photo Download: hooker on colfax Hooks are my weakness so I’ve been working to make them a strength. I entered Loose Id’s Hot Hooks contest and I made the top twenty. Now I need some help. ***Edit (I got my dates wrong. Thursday, Oct. 29th is the last day to vote)Today is the last day readers can vote for the best hooks. If you have a minute and  like mine, please vote for it. If you think it needs work, let me know where I need to tweak it. You can access the ballot from the front page of the site: http://www.loose-id.com/  Scroll Down and click the Hot Hooks…

  • Drawing,  Inner Voice,  One Single Impression,  Personal,  Poetry,  Psyche

    One Single Impression: Inner Voice

    Translation Needed She doesn’t speak in words,this inner voice of mine.She takes the long way ’round,the scenic route. She leads me through forests dressed in moonlight,and past fields of dark-eyed flowers.She comes from a land of feathered treesand heart-shaped butterflies. I speak to her in the simplest sentences,subject-verb-object.She answers in riddled landscapes.I don’t know what we mean,but I bet she does. See other impressions on Inner Voice.

  • Personal,  Running,  Summer Projects

    Four Miles to Enlightenment

    It wasn’t something I planned out, or had even mentally committed myself to. I had clipped a notice from the paper about a women’s running program that promised to teach non-athletes to run four miles — and love it — by the end of the summer. Now I was never the athletic type. When we ran laps in gym class, I wasn’t just at the back of the group, they could lap me once or twice. I never found a sport I was good at. So, I didn’t launch into running with the idea that I would win races. Quite the opposite, I started running as an anti-perfectionism project. Becoming…