"Things are sad on the internet" I was about to say, when, lo, someone posted a picture of my book Mapless! I can't be sad for long when my poems are out there, fomenting & fermenting & fizzing about. I still have 4 copies of Becoming Altar to sign for whomever steps up to catch one! Are you next?

I've probably read this poem 100 times, but when the world seems particularly gone to hell, it still brings me to tears.

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Nothing in for more than a day. Still need $950 of my Friday goal, and not even trying to think about the midmonth goal. Can anyone please help?

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I was fortunate enough to catch last years Alchemy Lecture and hope to tune in to this one as well. Last year's was profoundly moving.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I asked AI which one to try. "Explorers say to pick the right." I did; no Robert Frost in sight. The answer left me unimpressed once it turned out that Claude just guessed.

Me to small daughter: Please eat over the table or you’ll make a mess. Small daughter: Who cares? Me: I care! Small daughter: But you’re an abomination [turns back to her sandwich, considering the matter closed]

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

I went outside to take a breather and ended up making intense eye contact with a raccoon eating a discarded hot dog. We both knew in that moment that neither of us had any control over our lives.

I see it!

Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

I get that not everyone understands that baking is a precise science but surely, surely there is no way you genuinely thought you could replace the sugar in your cake with "calorie free cofee sweetener tablets" and blame it on the recipe being bad