Blog Post #1!

I'm starting a blog because I have a lot of writing and not a lot of ways to share it. I don't know if anybody will read it, but if they do that's great!!

I will be using my blog to share short stories or other little things that I write or have written. Writing is my favorite thing ever, other than singing and eating cake.

I do write some poetry, but I like to call it "little thoughts" instead. "Poetry" sounds like what high schoolers scribble in the back of their spiral-bound, college-ruled notebooks about that one hot guy on the football team, but then burn in their thirties because it's too cliché. 

And I'm not saying I think my "little thoughts" are never cliché. I sometimes write a thought that I'll open on my laptop just to admire—then after a day or two of gazing lovingly at my creation, I'll begin to realize it's just a mashup of several Kate Baer poems (I love love love!!), and I'll kind of shrivel up inside, and dun dun dun dunnn [enter writer's block]. . . I get stuck.

If it's not a crisis block, I can generally get unstuck by sunbathing in the back yard with my dog and a fresh page in front of me.

Here's one of the first real poems little thoughts I wrote, after a stormy May trip to Chincoteague and Assateague:

I Spent the Day at the Beach

And now when I close my eyes

I see endless rows of waves

crashing

exploding into the air as they 

collide

with the outgoing currents

sending foam flying,

cold boiling water roiling up

higher, faster

slamming my body

down 

into the sand.

My knees scrape the grains—

red like watercolor

across my skin