In my last blog post about the most influential teacher I ever had, Mr. Wilson, I recounted a time I was tasked with writing a sonnet and utterly (by perhaps only my own skewed standards) failed. That was, I believe, fall 2000. I did not attempt another sonnet until my second year of grad school--eight …
Unwritten Letters
Think Kit by Smallbox continues throughout the year with a prompt-a-month setup, and I suggested the prompt chosen for February, so I better write it, yeah? Write a letter to someone whom you never got a chance to thank for the role they played in your life. What was it about that person that mattered …
Happy Stuff: Sylvan Esso
I LOVE THIS BAND. No pretense. No games. Just talent. Just passion. Just loving what they do. And one ugly sweater--but Amelia Meath is such a badass she'll wear it anyway because it's about the MUSIC. Respect, sister. *dance it out* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_QAwfzsObo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224M5jVWpo4
Drug Salesmen
"I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?" --Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
Jackie Lutzke 