I like to challenge myself occasionally to see just how much we can jam into a few hours or a few days and still survive. In order to prove to myself that I can and WILL continue living life with three kids and a husband away for the evening, I think, “Hmmm, what would myContinueContinue reading “Life with Kids, Diet, and Exercise”
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The Hunger Games
Why is it that books about vampires, werewolves, and children killing children are so stinkin’ popular these days?Most of the time I am a nonfiction/poetry snob, I admit it, mostly because my job requires it. Occasionally, I miss reading for fun, though, and I have several friends who eat up fiction, both YA and adult. ContinueContinue reading “The Hunger Games”
The Road Ahead: Fall 2012 Outlook
We had a great weekend with the kids here in Ashland, the last weekend before Brandon goes back on the road for football season. It feels a little bit like a storm front is on the horizon. There’s only a few more hours of daylight to soak up before hunkering down inside for the long nightContinueContinue reading “The Road Ahead: Fall 2012 Outlook”
Getting in Love
Our church is in its annual At the Movies summer series right now, and today the pastor spoke using the movie, The Vow. I haven’t seen the movie in its entirety but I’m sure that I’ll like it, given the clips I saw this morning. It’s a romance; I might have to watch it withContinueContinue reading “Getting in Love”
The Grateful Shrub
This morning, a little ditty about gardening and growth is up at Tweet Speak Poetry: “I picked the wrong year to plant new shrubs…” – The Grateful ShrubIt’s the beginning of the annual Ashland University MFA Program summer residency, so I am up to my eyeballs with fun and writerly stuff. Andre Dubus III justContinueContinue reading “The Grateful Shrub”
Building Community
This past weekend, I spent some time in Indiana with about a dozen other writers who mostly met about three months ago at the Festival of Faith and Writing. We decided to come together because we’re all at similar places in our careers, like-minded in ideology and vision for our poetry, and we’re all outrageouslyContinueContinue reading “Building Community”
Negative Nancy and the Art of Self-Promotion
First off, a short essay of mine, “Grounded: Engaging the Spiritual in Poetry” is available on Poets’ Quarterly, which just relaunched this month. Check it out!Secondly, I now have all kinds of anxieties about what I just did: self-promote.It probably doesn’t seem like I have any trouble with promoting myself. I rock the social media, y’all. IContinueContinue reading “Negative Nancy and the Art of Self-Promotion”
Book Seven 2012: Townie by Andre Dubus III
Townie by Andre Dubus III is the kind of book you can’t help thinking about when you aren’t reading it. You live in its scenes while you are eating dinner with your kids or riding in the car, thinking about the narrator, wondering what is going to happen next, considering the plot development and theContinueContinue reading “Book Seven 2012: Townie by Andre Dubus III”
Corrective Lenses and Parenting
I have been cranky all night and the peanut butter and banana plus chocolate dessert is not helping. It is a shame, too, because it’s just about as perfect of a night as there could be in mid-June. It is still light at 8:30 and the neighborhood is milking every last second of daylight. TheContinueContinue reading “Corrective Lenses and Parenting”
Family Vacations, Then and Now
This weekend marked the first family vacation with my side of the family since the Great Myrtle Beach Thanksgiving Vacation Disaster of 2007. None of us said anything to reference it, but as we set up our campers at the state park on Friday night, cold wind whipping across the lake and blowing in heavyContinueContinue reading “Family Vacations, Then and Now”
Sarah Marie Wells 