The Sketchbook is in the Mail!

Just to keep you up to date, and depending on where you are in the world, the sketchbook can be seen in all its glory (with another 28,000!) at the Brooklyn Art House between Feb. 19-27, and Atlanta at the Granite Room on April 8-9. (For venues and dates, click here.)

So what's next?!

More writing...

This blog is primarily intended to invite you along on my traveling adventures, but another kind of adventure is about to begin, so I'm going to send you over to another blog...in just a minute...

Actually, this adventure has been going on since October, when I learned that Finishing Line Press had picked up a manuscript submitted for publication: my first poetry chapbook, Poems from the Boatyard. Yahoo!!!

So, after jumping through various publishing deadline hoops, in between travels to France and Italy, I am now in the 'marketing' phase, awaiting the pre-publication phase, which is set to occur for 6 weeks, starting on Feb. 15. And of course, marketing these days means SOCIAL MEDIA!!! BRING IT ON!!!


So the blog is up, and now officially open, and if you click here, you can be the first follower! I'll be continuing this one when travels pick up again, and I'll hope you'll join me in both adventures!

Thanks so much for being part of the journey. I appreciate you all, and your gracious and encouraging comments.

What next?!

My French blog is officially over...sigh...the French has slipped under the surface again, although I did meet someone last night who began speaking to me in French and asking if we could meet for lunch to speak more French! Man. I'd love to but where in the world do I crowbar that into the schedule?! In fact, last night, I got three invitations from one event, to add to another received by email. To add to the list of several from friends I need to catch up with after France. To add to the list of phone calls....blah blah blah...life in America.

As one dear friend wisely counseled, "Welcome to back to the USA where life moves quickly. Give yourself some intermittent moments of mentally drifting back to a lovely, slow moment of your vacation..."

And so I am...mulling over the next direction of this blog. I'm thinking of two: the Sketchbook Project (see Icon on the Sidebar) and Poems from the Boatyard. Both require my attention almost daily now, until deadlines are reached, and next week is some vacation time to devote chunks of time to them, rather trying to eke out an hour or two here and there, and I'll do that again in December over the Christmas holidays.

And I am setting up a separate blog for Poems from the Boatyard, which has taken on a life of its own. And not to compartmentalize my life, but I find it easier to think in different streams, so the waters don't get too muddied, but just splash over onto one another now and then.

Suggestions? Comments?! Input?!

Meanwhile, mentally drifting back to the slow, lovely moments of vacation in France, while enjoying a slow, lovely morning in Tyrone.