Just another writer
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New poem in Hanging Loose: “Ekphrasis on a City Sidewalk”
This poem began life as the alt text on a picture I posted to Twitter back before Twitter turned evil. After I wrote the alt text, I realized that the alt text applied to itself and not just the picture and with a bit of editing turned into the poem that was published in Hanging Loose.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, first four drawings
So I’ve started reading Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and I’ve reached the point where I have my first drawing exercise: four drawings, one of a person (drawn live—so you get my daughter on her iPad), one of a generic person drawn from imagination, one of my hand and one of
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Catholic Nerd Pigrimage: St Benedict the African
When I was planning this project, one of the things I really wanted to do was to visit as many of the Black Catholic parishes of Chicago as I could. Black Catholic worship is such a spirit-filled activity that it shouldn’t be missed. Today I attended the Easter Vigil Mass at St Benedict the African
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Catholic Nerd Pilgrimage: St Richard
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to go to a church for my Catholic Nerd pilgrimage, but I made it to St Richard church on the Southwest side of Chicago for a Good Friday communion service.¹ The area is part of the city’s expansion to the southwest after the second world war and
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Writerly resolutions: March status
Yet another disappointing month of little progress. A nasty flu at the beginning of the month and a new job haven’t helped. but mostly it’s indolence and procrastination to blame. New Novel. Ideally I’d have at least finished a chapter to be on pace this month. Not so much. I wrote 2037 words over the
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Writerly resolutions: February status
Well, I’ve at least gotten better at Terraforming Mars, although there is some better progress on the resolutions: New Novel Get two chapters finished. The revisions on the first of the two chapters was finished, but I only have 596 words of a second chapter written. Goal for March–April: Finish this chapter plus one more. We,
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Writerly resolutions: January status
As I try my new bi-monthly system of resolutions, I find myself falling short of my goals. I wish I could attribute it to circumstances beyond my control but largely it’s a consequence of having gotten addicted to Terraforming Mars on Board Game Arena. I really need to exercise some self control, especially since I
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Catholic Nerd Pilgrimage: St Ita
Looking like a misspelling of “santita,” Saint Ita was an Irish saint and the church named for her was presumably originally an Irish parish although the neighborhood has changed a great deal and the Mass I attended was in Spanish. Part of a three-church parish which also includes St Thomas of Canterbury. These two churches
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Catholic Nerd Pilgrimage: Old St Mary‘s
Old St Mary’s has the newest church building I’ve seen so far (I’m pretty sure it’s the newest church building in the city and quite possibly the whole archdiocese, which is ironic given its name) although the parish is also simultaneously the oldest parish in the city. Of the new church buildings I’ve seen I’m