One of my goals is to write a book of poetry focusing on fibromyalgia. Here’s one of the first:
Living in the After
[i]
Once, there were parts of my body unknown to me.
By now, the ache
has crept into every bone, nerve and fiber;
my body is a world,
and pain has colonized every inch of it.
[ii]
I remember that [...]
The verdict is in – lists are AWESOME! In honour of lists, here are some monumental things that I crossed of my list today:
- Finish 8 page essay for Renaissance Literature Class
- Finish final assignment for ENGL 323
- Finish application for Humber Summer Writing Workshop
- Send Humber application
- Smile like an idiot because I am [...]
Today was a long day, but I am totally thrilled right now! I spent about seven hours today working on an essay, and finished a really solid first draft (which hopefully will not require a ton of editing). I’m tired from working so hard and because I woke up at 7:30 (which is early for [...]
I finished my very first sestina!! (see my previous post to learn what a sestina is)
What do you think?
A Long Road
I am desperate to get home,
but the road is long,
and miles have crept into every inch of distance.
I stare at the window’s winter photograph
and wait
for time to disappear.
I too will disappear;
this place is no longer [...]
ahhh procrastination… I’m in the library trying to figure out a thesis for my final essay for my Renaissance literature class. Needless to say, it’s not exactly going smoothly, so I decided to write on my blog!!
I spent most of yesterday preparing my application for the Humber Summer Writing Workshop. It’s an intense weeklong [...]
One of the hardest things about living with fibromyalgia is that you feel sick all the time. At some point, you decide that this fact is not going to stop you from living your life. This can be confusing for people around you, who understand sickness as existing in extremes; people are either sick or [...]
A lot of people are intimidated by poetry, but what most of these people fail to realize is that the vast majority of contemporary poetry is very reader friendly. You don’t have to read Renaissance sonnets or T.S. Elliot to enjoy poetry.
Along this line of thinking, I wanted to recommend to you my favourite [...]
I am incredibly, unbelievably exhausted. While I don’t know what it is like to not have fibromyalgia, I imagine I am feeling a level of exhaustion only experienced by people with fibromyalgia or other chronic fatigue illnesses. I was tempted to just not write a post today, but I decided that I couldn’t give [...]
Hurray! I survived my Renaissance literature exam. My brain is still full of Shakespeare and Sidney. Want to know how something in your life relates to Renaissance literature? I can tell you!
I am very much looking forward to a really long night of sleep tonight, followed by a tv filled day tomorrow. I’m taking [...]
So I get into a taxi tonight and the driver says “Oh! It looks like you have E-X-A-M on your forehead!” I literally sat there for almost a minute trying to figure out how I got writing on my face. Then I finally clued in that he was trying to tell me I looked stressed. [...]
