It is the season of Christmas music, Christmas lights, Christmas cookies, Christmas parties, Christmas shopping, and Christmas. Christmas. Just the word lifts my spirits. Merry Christmas to you. And you. And you over there, too! I’d like to give a shout out to the folks over at Kodak Gallery. I ordered *stuff* from them onContinueContinue reading “The Holidays”
Author Archives: Sarah M. Wells
What Is This Really About?
Over the course of the last six months (!), I’ve been working on shaping my collection of poems. It has gone through a number of transformations and two title changes, and right now I have six stacks of paper in the kitchen – one stack for each “theme” I think my book has. (Six. Hm.ContinueContinue reading “What Is This Really About?”
That Crazy Thang Called "Plans"
It’s the end of another week, and I have a bit of a headache that I’m calling sinus because if I scrunch up my nose and squint my eyes, the pressure seems to be relieved a little bit. It’s kind of hard to type like this and I think all of the undergraduates wandering byContinueContinue reading “That Crazy Thang Called "Plans"”
Posting Poems
You may be asking yourself, (or probably not), “Why hasn’t Sarah been posting poems lately?” And the truth of the matter is I haven’t written any lately – it’s been a busy late summer and fall, and with all this life happening, writing isn’t. But also, I have been thinking about this blog and theContinueContinue reading “Posting Poems”
Pushing Matchbox Cars
“Sow your seed in the morning, and at night let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.” – Ecclesiastes 11:6That’s really all I want to say. I’ve tried to elaborate on this verse for the last fifteen minutesContinueContinue reading “Pushing Matchbox Cars”
Painting Nails and Gettin’ Dolled Up for Work?!
In about three hours, the students and faculty will begin to arrive for the Ashland MFA program, and step one to prepare for the residency today: painting my nails. This is clearly the most important item on my agenda for the day, even though I rarely paint my nails, even for weddings. I even broughtContinueContinue reading “Painting Nails and Gettin’ Dolled Up for Work?!”
Waltzing
Sometimes the way we move about each other feels choreographed, we’ve been practicing it so long. It is a good kind of dance, where your partner seems to have mastered the steps and knows right when to lead, when to dip, when to spin, how to maneuver you just right so you feel as ifContinueContinue reading “Waltzing”
Pancake Saturdays
This isn’t your everyday Bisquick pancake;we follow the supreme recipe.My daughter begs to stir and measuremilk and mix. Crack an egg,warm the griddle, summer whisperingthrough the open window –slow rise, tea pot whistle, cooking oil sizzle –the rest of the day impatientto begin, percolating our morning –Is it ready yet? No, we need moretime toContinueContinue reading “Pancake Saturdays”
Potty Training Adventures
I have never been so proud of bowel movements.We began potty training our son, Elvis, a few weeks ago. We eased him into the process with the convenient yet pointless Pull-Ups and their sneaky tricks to entice you into buying boxes and boxes of them under the guise of “potty training” when really, they areContinueContinue reading “Potty Training Adventures”
Readings and Reading
This weekend, I had the great joy of reading at the Columbus Arts Festival. You never know with poetry readings – there could be dozens of people, or there could be one: your husband. Fortunately for me, the Columbus Arts Festival drew thousands of people, and a few of those folks stopped to linger aroundContinueContinue reading “Readings and Reading”
Sarah Marie Wells 