How was your weekend?  Aside from it being cold and cloudy and at times rainy here, mine was OK.  My daughter was gone all weekend for a girl scout camping trip.  My younger son was at a sleepover on Friday night.  That meant Friday night hubby, my older son, and myself had a nice dinner together at a pizza place/brew pub, Il Vicino.  We had fun telling stories to older son (he’s 13) about the “good old days” of early computers, early internet, and stuff like that.  So much has changed with information technology over the last few years, that it’s so easy to feel like old fogies in that regard.

Last night I finished “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel and plan to write about that soon.  Great book.  Husband picked up “Slumdog Millionaire” which we have yet to watch, so I may mention soon what I think of the movie vs. the book.

Here are a few things I’ve come across recently that I thought I’d share.

Interested in short stories?

Julie at On the Curve tells us why she likes “One Story”.   This intrigued me enough that I subscribed (they offer two free trial issues to start with).  Information on how to get there is in Julie’s post.

Want more of poetry even though National Poetry Month is over?  Today’s featured poem at www.poets.org is “Sorrows”, by Lucille Clifton, whose poem “Adam Thinking” I quoted in my poetry month wrap-up post.

Want a little bit of literary everything?  Although Gautami tells us about a fantastic short story (“Blue” by Yuri Zalkow) at Narrative Magazine, this online magazine has a little bit of everything: fiction, book excerpts (reading the excerpt of T.C. Boyle’s latest book “The Women” only makes me more eager to read it), cartoons, poetry, and more.  It’s free to sign up.  By the way, it took me a while to figure out that clicking on the red “Narrative” takes you back to their home page.

Are you a creative one who occassionally gets blocked?  Subversive Stitchers  has a good blog post today where it’s suggested that you ask, “What If?”.  Also, I love looking at the various features in this blog’s sidebar; be sure to scroll through it all; I’m sure there will be at least one thing there to pique your interest.

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