A better day today. I woke up and looked out the kitchen window, and there were three deer with their legs folded up, sleeping in my yard, a mom and two half-yearlings. And then there were hummingbirds, a couple of stellar jays – it was like waking up in a Disney cartoon! How can you be grumpy with that? Even on another miserably cold April (!!) day…
Finally got to see Juno, which I really liked. It was nice to actually enjoy a film, as opposed to suffering through it. Honestly, how many good, fun movies has Hollywood made in the last couple of years? I’m counting them on one hand – Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction…okay, I’m out…
Oh, and if you’ve been sending me e-mail at my hotmail account, and haven’t heard back, that’s probably because hotmail has been randomly blocking people, I just found out – so write again or use the form at my web site and I’ll either try to unblock you or give you a supersecret alternate e-mail address to use.
I’m turning 35 in two weeks. Cannot believe how old I am now. 30 didn’t hurt me, but 35? Ouch.

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.



Yokel (TKS)
LOL J9, I could see you out there in the magical light of dawn with your Snow White gown on and everything!
Tamara
Anne
35 threw me a lot harder than 30 did, as well — I’m not sure why. But turning 40 was a blast.
Happy “last two weeks of your early thirties”! (ducking and running)
Collin
Juno was a hoot! We laughed and cried.
35 didn’t phase me, but I’m feeling weird about approaching 40 now. I turn 39 in September and that’s just too weird for me.