Work In Progress

I’ve been neglecting this blog and hope to get back into the groove again.  I did not write much this summer as I took two classes through Front Range Community College: world mythology and a survey of eastern religions.  Both were delightful and helped sate my ever-pressent need for mythological knowledge.
I’ve finished one flash fiction [...]

I’m starting to feel that mid-term crunch right now.  There’s a lot going on within my MFA world, lots to do, and sometimes I wonder where I’ll find the time.  That said, I tend to do my best work under pressure.  Projects in the works:
First Essay due for 19th Century British Literature.
I’m working on [...]

I admit it.  I’ve been lazy.  Very lazy.  Last semester crushed me.  I was reading 250-500 pages a week, most of it involving composition pedagogies.  I definitely felt like a fish out of water being the only MFA student in a class room full of rhet/comp majors.  I still managed to squeak by with an [...]

I’m enjoying Alice Munro this semester. We’ve read the following short stories:

Walker Brothers Cowboy
Dance of the Happy Shades
Postcard
Images
Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You
The Ottawa Valley
Material
Royal Beatings
Wild Swans
The Beggar Maid
Simon’s Luck
Chaddeleys and Flemings
Dulse
The Turkey Station
Labor Day Dinner
The Albanian Virgin
Carried Away
A Wilderness Station
Vandals

The most recent: A Wilderness Station. I think it’s one of my [...]