This month has been packed with lit goodness. The incredible inaugural issue of Literary Namjooning dropped and it’s more beautiful than I imagined. Thank you, Hema, Lakshmi, and Melissa!  What you have created is a loving tribute and besides all the great pieces – including mine – paired with the artwork, the contributor notes are both interesting and helpful. I’m sad for the reason this zine came into existence, but lightened that such pain transformed into great beauty.

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I had a guest pass to the Percival Everett reception at Babeville courtesy of the incredible Kim Chinquee. Here he is during the interview after his reading:

NUNUM, a paying market, accepted “Spiders Everywhere.”  It’s live and I’m paid, so awesome enough for the month, right? But there’s more.

Let’s talk workshops. My piece in Literary Namjooning  was written in a Kathy Fish Fast Flash Reunion. NUNUM accepted one of three I wrote in the Cheryl Pappas workshop in January. I took a class with Amber Sparks  this month and another Kathy Fish workshop this past Saturday. If past performance is any indicator, I may have more acceptances soon. Hahaha. All I can do is hope, and hone, and prepare for a presentation. Yes, that’s right. I will be reading at Drop Hammer on Halloween with Karen Wyent, a poet I met at the WCoNA conference in March.

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At the Colden Arts Festival, we bought some Christmas presents and we have new art. Thank you Julie Tuttle for painting & framing the picture in the middle that works perfectly in this corner!

Working toward winter, coupled with having company come spend the night, has left the house in an acceptable level of nonclutter, plus it’s still sort of clean, so knock on wood, I can get back to the novel rewrite now. If the animals allow it, but I turn around and find the cat is trying to send the dog back to where we got her and I have to figure out where the cat even got a box – let alone one of that size…

So, all of this, plus birthdays of some of my favorite people happened, as well as a canine sad so long and a nearly human one close to my sister, plus a ton of other stuff, but I put this off until the last minute and need to wrap it up here.

Thank you SO much for stopping by and for the read! Be good to you in October!