Sorry to neglect the blog! Husband G got a cold, then I got it, and in my downtime, I got to revamp my two manuscripts and write some new poems. I’m writing more about my childhood in Knoxville, and about the whole “nuclear” thing in Oak Ridge, which is on my mind more and more these days. My father worked as a consultant on the Oak Ridge site, checking in and out with his radioactive-monitoring badge, showing me how to work a Geiger counter at an early age, and owned a black safe in which “secret government documents” were kept. Dad worked on the cleanup end, trying to figure out how to make the place safer, not on the whole “making bombs or reactors” side.
I’m also planning a big web site revamp, moving from the techie main site with poetry subsite to a main site focused on poetry. The site will have fewer subpages, the navigation will be cleaner, and the style will be a little softer, a little more “creative type” and a little less “Matrix.”
After all, when I started webbish6.com lo these many years ago, I was mostly a freelancing technical journalist, who was just starting to get going on the poetry stuff – whereas now, I’m mostly a poet – at least I think so. Plus, the code is old and doesn’t run well on Firefox, which is what about a third of visitors are using, according to my web stats. My little brother, who is a graphics wizard, is helping me build the layout, and we got permission to use some art from one of my current favorite artists. I hope you’ll like it!