Jacqueline West's Blog, page 15

Welcome Brom

Here is the newest member of our small family: Brom Bones, who came home with us from the Humane Society last night.  According to the shelter workers and our own best guesses, he's around 10 months old, and is an Australian Shepherd-Springer Spaniel cross.  During his short life, he'd already been turned over to the shelter, adopted, handed off to another family, abandoned on the streets, returned to the shelter by animal control and kept in their kennels for nearly two months.  Things were ...

Building Empires

We're just about to leave Portland via the Empire Builder for home in the Midwest, and the week has passed in a blur of pleasant unreality.  Yesterday I rode in the back of a convertible through Willamette wine country, while meanwhile, in Minnesota, thar be snow.  Arrr.  If it weren't for play rehearsals and 10 days' build-up of mail, it would be even harder to want to go home. 

Catching up on publishing news:
- The gorgeous autumn issue of Goblin Fruit is up, including my poem "Abracadabra":...

...And a Story

And my short story, "Scavenger," is also freshly posted at Reflection's Edge - http://reflectionsedge.com/ - a journal that just gets cooler and prettier as time goes by. 

A Pair of Poems

Two new-ish poems of mine, "Tiresias on Eighth Avenue" and "Midas," are in flashquake's fall 2009 issue: http://www.flashquake.org/ 
I love this journal and feel very lucky that they've given my work a home, yet again.

Ack.

Finally returning to the daily routine of coffee, The Daily Show, and then as much writing as I can get finished in one stretch.  BLISS.

Well, between this entry and the last (as an actual record of daily life, this journal is doomed), we emptied out our rented stone farmhouse in a tiny town on the eastern edge of Wisconsin and moved everything into our very own (yes, we have a mortgage! We are grown-ups!) 1920's bungalow in a much larger town in Minnesota.  It is so good to be near family, in...

Luddite Weekend

  
Found this blobby green personage in the lettuce patch yesterday.  I hope he eats ALL the earwigs.


So, we decided to spend the weekend, starting Friday morning, with no electronic entertainment.  No DVDs, no TV, no CDs, no video games, no computers.  My husband proposed the project (he'd been reading Eric Brende's Better Off and wanted to try a weekend with no electricity at all; I persuaded him that we needed electric lights...and the coffee maker), and I was quick to agree because there i...

A Small Hello

After lots of waffling and lip-biting, I've finally taken the plunge. 

Yes -- I will be one more writer writing an online journal about writing. 

I know that I'm getting into this whole livejournal thing a few years behind the rest of the world.  This is the pace at which I adapt to new technology.  (Case in point: my cell phone is shaped like a fishstick, can't connect to the internet, can't take pictures, and contains three phone numbers, one of which is my own.  I don't know how to put any...