by casblomberg | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog, Blogging, challenge, poetry, Reading, weekly challenge
Week Four into my poetry reading challenge and I need to tell you the past few days have been difficult for me to keep my part of the bargain. Last week I picked up a cold from somewhere and now both kids are home sick. When that happens, I tend to just go through the...
by casblomberg | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Blogging, challenge, poetry, Reading, weekly challenge
I’m on week three! I’ve also added a photo :). I read somewhere that photos are a must, so I tried to add a photo last week. I dumped out a bunch of those magnetic poetry pieces on the table and tried to make a small poem. ‘Silver angels...
by casblomberg | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Blogging, challenge, poetry, Reading, weekly challenge
When did time become so fast? Two weeks have already flown by. It was harder to keep up with the challenge this week. A couple of my days didn’t go as planned, but I’ve stuck with it and I’m proud to say I’ve read seven more poems. My reading...
by casblomberg | Jan 8, 2015 | Blog, Blogging, challenge, poetry, Reading, weekly challenge
At the end of last year, I made myself a resolution to read a poem a day. As I said in the original post, I’m not a poet. I’m not sure I want to be a poet, either. But I have great respect for poets and words. In an effort to learn more about both, and...
by casblomberg | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Blogging, poetry, Reading, resolutions, Writing
It’s been said that if you want to write fiction well, study poetry. When I think about that advice, two things strike me: (1) I want to write fiction well, (2) I have not studied poetry. I’ve read poetry. I’ve read Longfellow and Tennyson, Yeats and...
