If it’s Monday, you must be in Seattle…

Back from picturesque Bellingham (I forgot my camera, but everything was like the perfect autumn small town – from snowy Mt. Baker, the turning maples, the dense fog over the water at night.) Had great fun reading with Martha at Village Books, and got to meet some great folks – including fellow blogging-poet Oliver de la Paz. Definitely have to go back to Bellingham on a purely recreational trip sometime soon.

Finally recovering from month-long chest and head thing – travel does, apparently, take a toll on the health front – and looking forward to some rest to work on my thesis, bibliography, etc (all due 11/20.)

And, picked up an unexpected extra on this reading trip – we passed pumpkin farms, sweet corn stands, pick your own apple farms…but couldn’t resist a woman with kittens. We’re now the proud owners of a little semi-Ragdoll-esque little male kitten named Shakespeare. He kept us up all night biting out hands, meowing loudly, and terrorizing our nice blonde adult female cat, Bastett. Here’s a pic – where he’s all tired out from shenanigans….

And, on the poetry front, a new review up on Fickle Muses, a new journal of myth and poetry, of Becoming the Villainess: here it is at…http://www.ficklemuses.com/nonfiction/becomingthevillainess.html