Rick' s Blog on Writing

Update on Martin Luther King Day

Well, it's about 9:00AM and I'm just being lazy today on this day off...
Watched the New England Patriots beat the San Diego Chargers last evening (although, truth be told, the Chargers actually outplayed the Pats and just mad too many mistakes....oh well, good for us...it's on to Indy next week).

Submitted my entry in the weekly poetry league "battles" and, for some reason, had a really had time with it this week. My assigned topic was "Always On My Mind"...one problem was that all I could think of was the Willie Nelson song by the same name....makes being creative a bit harder. I've also found that having (at most) three days to "create" poetry under the gun is not the ideal way to write...create "art"....having a short timed deadline can make the writing (at least this weeks writing) "forced" and is not conductive to "good" poetry....I seem to either "be in the flow" or
"not in the flow" when it comes to writing. this week it seemed it was more of the latter....oh well, see what happens (I was up against one of the top poets too...hmmmmmmmm wonder how he made out?? LOL)

The weather up here in New England (Mass.) is crappy this morning.....freezing rain/sleet. I can't complain too much, it's really been an incredibly warm winter...no snow as of yet....Yeaaaaaaaah!!! I HATE WINTER and I HATE SNOW!!!!!!!lol. I know the skiers and ski areas (not to mention the guys losing money on snow plowing) hate this, but hey, I absolutely love it. As I have mentioned before, I have 3 years until retirement and then it "outta here"...sick of living in the "ice age"....will be off to Florida to enjoy sunshine all year round and all the die hard New Englanders (Yankees...lol) can have this s***T....I told all my family and friends that they can send me a post card (or email) with a picture of snow on it..that will be as close as I ever want to come to it...after retirement...

Will have more time to write after retirement...when work doesn't get in the way...LOL

Ta Ta for now....love to chat with you, so send your comments...

Thanks,

Rick