WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

May 2009

May 8, 2009

Getting Dressed

I am blogging in my pajamas. I've been in pajamas since 2:00 this afternoon. What does this have to do with the purported topic of this blog? Well, fifteen years ago, when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, I made a commitment to myself: get dressed every day. I might not brush… Continue reading

Personal

“chronic fatigue”, CFS, fibromyalgia, FMS, M.E.
May 6, 2009

Well, I haven’t done this in awhile…

Captain Jean-Luc Picard Always in control, you are a great leader, delegator, and diplomat. These qualities attract people to you, and this sometimes annoys you. Aloof, introspective, and philosophical; you enjoy quiet time in solitude. Take the Star Trek Quiz Continue reading

Quizzes

quiz, silly, Star Trek
May 5, 2009

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media

I have recently entered an entirely new (for me) internet world: the marketing Web. My Etsy shop, an attempt to offset some of my online costs, opened recently, after several weeks of research, exploration, and reading about online selling. I've read article after article on using social media — Facebook, Flickr, Twitter — to sell… Continue reading

Web/Tech

auto-follow, Blogging, facebook, Flickr, online marketing, social media, spam, Twitter
May 4, 2009

Serendipity – now & then, the random arrangment delights me

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Photos 2009

Flickr, photo, photograph
May 1, 2009

NaPoWriMo – Catch Up

OK, I know I can't really 'catch up'. Life — in the form of a sick little dog — intruded upon my intentions. Now she's all better (less one bladder stone) and I turn my attention here once more. There are a few Twitter poems I never got around to posting, so here they are:… Continue reading

NaPoWriMo

NaPoWriMo, poem, twitpoem

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

May 2009

Getting Dressed

Well, I haven’t done this in awhile…

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media

Serendipity – now & then, the random arrangment delights me

NaPoWriMo – Catch Up