Thanks for all your well-wishes! I finally started to feel better yesterday. The 80-degrees-and-blue-sky-sunshine weather probably didn’t hurt. I had a job interview at U of Washington. Then Glenn took me out to lunch, and we took a walk underneath blooming apple and cherry trees. I had a profound sense of gratefullness, inner peace, happiness, what have you. The opposite of angst or mourning. I was happy to be out of bed, in the sun, with the spring all around. Happy to be with Glenn (it’s almost thirteen years now!) Happy for the chance to live my life. I still don’t have a place to live in a month, or a job yet. But I don’t know. I feel peaceful about everything.

Congratulate Kelli for her big win at The Atlantic!

Getting ready for the trip to Chicago next week to read with the Bookslut reading series. this little book sure has kept me busy. If you live there and want to get together for coffee or anything, drop me a line.

Looking at a new phase of life. I’ve graduated, I’m (fairly) healthy, I’m ready to work again, bring home a (steady, non-freelance) paycheck, do something with my head and hands besides classwork. I’m sending out my second book, and people seem to like the poems. Two more acceptances this week from my Japanese-folk-tale sequence.

Happy Easter weekend. I’m going to dye some eggs and eat a bunny cookie. Wow, this post is too happy. It almost doesn’t sound like a poet lives here! LOL.