You can also have coffee at La Taza’s –Â I recommend the organic Mexican — at the edge of the Belmont neighborhood near downtown, which is a neighborhood something like the one we live in at home, Wagener Terrace.
Mudhouse is one place where you can get good coffee and free wifi in Charlottesville, outdoors or in. Outside, pedestrians and heat; inside, art and cool.
Taking a vacation, I expect this blog will be a little lean in the days to come. Meanwhile…
There’s a new one-minute vacation
over at the QuietAmerican. “One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.”
I am particularly taken by the artist’s commentary on leaving, who says, [...]
More photos of the get-together the other night. Yes, it was fun! I am completely swamped at the moment so this short bit/act of good blogging citizenry will have to do for now.
I love how Robert Thomas blogs about immense topics like the triangle in poetry and how he doesn’t shy away either from talking about what goes on behind the scenes in his own writing; for example, discussing/dissecting the inspiration and compulsion to write a specific poem:
On the one hand, the question of what inspired me [...]
What Dreams Are Made Of (Technologies that reveal the inner workings of the brain are beginning to tell the sleeping mind’s secrets).
Details the evolution of dream research and discusses the many ways that scientists think about dreaming. Something surprising I learned from this story: “We know that 60 to 70 percent of people who go [...]
Two of the more recent places on the Web with writing prompts:
at mcsweeneys
SundayScribblings blog
PostSecret might evoke something.One of the tenets of fiction writing holds that every character has his/her motivation and that stories are about how characters go about getting what they want, coarsely put. LoveLines serves up wants. (Note: “wants” is one setting [...]
That’s what Raymond Carver called parenthood, (Warren Wilson alum) Adrian Blevins reminds in [msn's lifestyle] On Parenthood and Poetry: Six Questions with Poet Adrian Blevins. What I most appreciate is the honesty in such passages as this:
When my older boys were teenagers, though, I used poetry to make certain points about how I did and [...]
A few years back, I read what seems to me now some not so great poems at the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series. Checking the schedule for this year, I’m happy to see one of my former students (from the Charleston School of the Arts) is on the lineup to read, and sorry to see [...]
My family members were quite taken with the angel live oaks in Hampton Park. The way the branches spread out skimming the surface of the ground — you don’t see that in Pennsylvania. Their intrigue made me wish I knew more. Catching up on digital things today, I came across the Good Morning Lowcountry’s Big [...]