The New Look

Is really a new wordpress theme. All seems to be working as it should, at least in the browsers that I’ve checked. If you find anything on the site that doesn’t work, please let me know.
I still have some tinkering to do with it, but overall I’m quite pleased with the look.
This is brought about [...]



Moblogging again

Yesterday’s post might need some explanation. One of the reasons I changed to WordPress was so that I could post by email from a mobile phone. And as you can see from the formatting of the post it isn’t completely satisfactory. Still, it worked. . .if you can learn to ignore the odd = sign.
It [...]



Welcome to WordPress. This is my first post. Getting to know the software is quite seductive. I’m smitten without making her responsible for my existence. It’s an old formula but it still works. That crazy mixture between modern manners, all the latest talks and walks, and an old-fashioned notion of prettiness. You know there’s a [...]






About Writing:

As I'm writing, I'm always reader conscious. I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I'm talking to, and I want to make sure I don't talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong. Billy Collins

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