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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Two poems

Sometimes I wander into the NSCC library and check out magazines for no reason. The last time I was in, I checked out an issue of Poetry Northwest. I found a couple poems that I liked.

Aperture
Even though it was only last night
I keep turning to the image of you
leaning in to kiss me
as [...]

Don’t tell me real poems can’t start with “WTF”

In keeping with my tradition of posting strange things during finals week
(because I never post strange things otherwise)
here is a poem I wrote last week. It is called “Cork”.

WTF: I dreamed about cork last night.
I saw how it forms naturally,
and what it looks like before it is carved.
It falls from pine trees
in the [...]

Pro-ana on flickr

I am shocked by a subculture I just found on flickr, which I should have already guessed was present, since it’s widespread on the Internet through personal websites… The pro ana people.
:(
One of my photos has a shot of the cover of the book “Thin” (Greenfield, Lauren, David B. Herzog, and Michael Strober. 2006. [...]

One year ago, two years ago…

It’s time for another game of One Year Ago, Two Years Ago…
One year ago I was not taking photos, but I was in the middle of my 365 Sketches project, and I drew this:

Bones, 2008
Two years ago we celebrated Shawna’s 30th birthday. Before Cynthia, Jen and I went over, we took silly self portraits [...]

Early warning signs of cancer

I had to write this up for some homework tonight, and thought I would share. It’s a quick little thing about early warning signs of cancer.
This isn’t a comforting list, because a lot of these symptoms also accompany chronic disease, but it’s better to be aware of them and get them checked [...]