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  • DreamScapes

    I had a perfect dream last night my grandma came down from heaven in a parade of marching flag bearers and angelic fly-offs and we giggled in a pastel appointed cabin near the glug glugging stream and the black bear I met in the forest chuckled when in hesitation I took a step away and she grinned and...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 02-26-2008

  • Mama Dear - A Different Sort of Love Story (Part 1: Manda's Story)

    My mama. She sits on her bed with her legs crossed, hugging herself hard, rocking back and forth, never stopping, never hardly talking. Sometimes she slows her rocking and glances at Dad’s face when he talks. I don’t know if that’s really listening or not. I think she doesn’t know how to listen much...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 02-02-2008

  • Routine - Some Spice in my Life

    Routine. When one thinks of a creative person's day, the last thing that comes to mind is routine. But in my life as a writer, my week-day routine is the first thing I think of. And the first thing I thought of this morning? My routine. It structures my working time and gives me a focus, and though...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 01-30-2008

  • Bookmark Bio - A Challenge

    I use bookmarks continuously. Find a cool site, something to remember, an inspirational post, a great new product? I throw it, literally, in my bookmarks. Occasionally I clean my bookmarks - what a job. Yesterday was a cleaning day. As I organized my links into the proper folders, I had an epiphany....
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 12-26-2007

  • Search Engines Climbing up the Wrong Tree

    I have a photo blog, one I post to daily. Photos of nature, architecture, country living, that sort of thing. Once a week or so I go through my search engine terms that have brought people to visit. Sometimes I have a good laugh. Tonight I had a very good laugh. Although I am shaking my head in wonder...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 12-16-2007

  • Just Thoughts from a Snowy Day

    It has been snowing all day - blustery, swirly snow. I went out to take some photos. There's a lovely decorated Christmas tree, only a half of a tree made out of real evergreen boughs, propped on the outside wall of the library, all festive with bows and baubles and gold beads. The roads were slippery...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 12-11-2007

  • Creating is a Full Time Job!

    I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm on a writing roll I can't get ANYTHING else accomplished. Today I've been editing three poems that are going to an editor tomorrow. I have been 'doing' words all day long and now when I should be 'doing' dinner or laundry or...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 12-06-2007

  • Still awake at 3:40 a.m. and Still Deep in Conversation (Part 2)

    This is part 2. Part 1 is just before this. Read that one first. I still can't believe you want to write a book. An old poetry book that sits on a dusty shelf somewhere. Why would you want to spend all that time writing a book of poems no one will read? But this is a DIFFERENT sort of poetry book...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 11-30-2007

  • Is Someone Talking to Me? It's 3 in the Morning? (Part 1)

    So why are you sitting in the dark? You should be in bed! I really need to set some of my goals. Well, you better get busy! First things first. I should spell out THE GOAL. So what's the long term goal? To write. Write what, silly? Write poetry. Everyone writes poetry. It's every writer's...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 11-30-2007

  • Serendipity?

    Here I am struggling with the choice to say yes or no to a huge project, and this is what I read: "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." -- Dale Carnegie Artists need signs, too. Right...
    Posted to BE-BOP BO (Weblog) by bomackison on 11-23-2007
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