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I have spent the day at a social-media seminar at Drake University. I am overflowing with tweets, posts, alerts, readers, feeds, etc.
I am networking and discovering new blogs such as: catch-26 svanaartsenandydrish.com
Let me process all this and come back tomorrow.

Drip Drop.Drip Drop.Snow piles meltRun down the walkTo the street,Slow and sure. Drip Drop. Rays of sunBurn through the mound out back. Once white and pureNow a brown mess.Drip DropDrip Drop. The snow is goneBut there is no green grass. And then,Just when you think spring has sprung.A flake falls. So white and clean. Then [...]

Hypothetically speaking, if you see a cart sitting in the parking garage of the public library with magazines on it and nobody is there to claim them is it stealing if you take one of them home with you? Especially if it has a cover like this? Seriously, who can resist cupcakes? I’ll be honest. [...]

I don’t feel like a writer these days. But even as I type that I wonder what a writer really is. Do you have to be published to be a writer? Do you have to write every day? Do people have to know that you write? And even though I can answer yes to each of these questions, there is still a part of me doesn’t always feel like a writer.

I’ll be the first to say that I was more than happy to turn the calendar page on January to February. Does anyone else think that having 31 days of January is just a little too brutal? Obviously the past month has been particularly rough in my world besides the cold, snow, and ice, but [...]