It seemed a good idea, I thought

I'm reading today at 3:30 from my newly released book of poetry, SAY YES.  PoetryFest 2013, Sanibel Library.  Will be at the ART for Acts Gallery tonight where SAY YES will be displayed and for sale.  The book can also be purchased on Amazon, Barnes & Nobel.com,  The Art of Literature Bookstore or on my website.  www.authorsden.com/joyceadanielsjd's Website…

The National Cherry Blossom Festival begins next week in Washington, D.C. To celebrate, I've posted Haiku Chronicles' video "Blossom Storm", featuring poetry, dance, music, and cherrry blossoms.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/saturday-short_16.html

A re-post for a busy day . . .

Thou art to me as the gentlest breeze

Composed of warmest breath and tender sigh.

Though rocky storms may quake the weak man’s ease

When warmest breezes toward December fly,

When all too fast the life of Zephyrs end,

And daunted, a man’s dreams to dust return,

Then all the promise of spring can’t bend

His eye to see that sunlight ere returns.

But thy wilt young forever be,

Thy strength and soft affection so combined

To keep…

I thought some of you might be interested in how I'm using WordPress to help me with my "spring cleaning".  

Okay, so it's not exactly Spring, but I've been putting off this project for years, not just months and I can't let a little hot weather get in my way now.  

The Problem - 

I have all these files on my computer: photos, journals, bits and pieces of stories and story ideas, school papers, scans of payroll stubs and tax returns, and who knows what…

Dedicate v. 1. To set apart for a special use. 2. To commit (oneself) to a course of action. 3. To address or inscribe (e.g., a literary work) to someone.  (Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, 2^nd ed)

Spring possibilities are about to cede to summer pleasures. I’ve been ruminating on the importance of spring cleaning for your writing life and have covered the first two…

A few weeks ago I began a series on spring cleaning for your writing life. There are three steps in the process:

1) You reassess your space, your schedule, and patterns of mind to see…

No sleep. I toss and turn. I send out a tweet. A buddy in Australia sends me back another tweet. “Get some sleep for at least a couple of hours,” but he knows I probably can’t even if I tried to. This was not supposed to be like this. I was relaxed all along the presidential campaigns. I knew that they would be far from perfect under the rule of the military junta, but I also knew that there was no way out of them if we were to come out of the impasse we’re in.

We’ve gone down…

My dog Susie says

“Springtime in the South”

My Daddy and Big Mommy love the springtime in Georgia. There are all kinds…

Is your desktop (or smartphone) awash in files and icons that you rarely use? Is your Inbox crammed to capacity? Do you break out in a cold sweat when you think about…

So I have volunteered to write about brain tumor patients and survivors to raise awareness.  There is an ongoing awareness campaign over on Twitter called "Brain Tumor Thursday."  It happens every Thursday on Twitter.  Just put in the hash tag #braintumorthursday.  There is great information, support, stories, and articles being shared from…

PLANTING MY GARDEN ... The Vegetable Kind

I'm so excited! Spring Equinox is only 10 days away - Daylight savings has sprung forward, and we are fast approaching that day of equal day and night before racing towards the Summer Solstice. My fingers are itchy to get back in the soil and I would say that Spring has been teasing forever, but I think we just plain skipped Winter this year.   Even as I look out my office window, what is termed by the national weather service…