Tag Archives: Have You Ever Read…

Shake the Dust

I tried to wait to post this but I couldn’t. Rereading the poem just got me so excited. Tuesday October 12th Anis is performing in Baltimore and I’m gonna be there. I gotta be there. Talk about literary minds that can shake your world view in seconds. Anis has got it. I will be leaving [...]

MOOSEd

I went to BN last night. Danger ZONE! Barnes and Nobles is like taking a child to Disney and expecting it not to touch everything. SO, I probably wouldn’t be in any College debt if I hadn’t discovered the place. BUT MOVING ON!
I found the author I want to be. At least I want her [...]

Mr. Young and His Shack

“If anything matters than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing [...]

Anne Sexton and me

“The great theme is not Romeo and Juliet… The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.”
-from Anne’s early introduction for “The Double Image”

I’m reading Anne Sexton’s biography which is really a compilation of letters she wrote to people and then excerpts [...]