Found:
Beautiful female calico.
If she is yours, or if you are interested in providing a loving home to her, please e-mail found-kitten [at] estellaramirez.com
This precious thing wandered into our lives, but we already have 3 cats–absolutely no room for more. We’re feeding her because she’s so skinny! And she’s a sweetie who will make someone a great friend. Please give her a home! Look how cute she is!!!!!
I got a planter of chives at the farmer’s market a few weeks ago, so when I make baked potatoes, I just snip some up with scissors (yumm!!!).
I also planted zucchini vines that are now growing really fast in planters. I’ve recently learned they will be huge, and probably take over my porch! They are already big and amazing looking. I hope they’ll grow zucchinis and we can add them to our pasta (yummy!)
I don’t have a yard yet; I live in an apartment, but I’ve begun growing thyme and chamomile in planters on my porch. Lovely—yes? I love it.
Ceremony wasn’t all too exciting—in fact, I have a great disgust for graduations/award ceremonies (a great, great disgust), but it was good to take a day to acknowledge my accomplishment in some way.
It was especially wonderful to see the support I have surrounding me as I look to the next right thing to do. My sweet family: mom, dad, brother, sister all came to San Marcos to join Carlos and me for my graduation. I was very touched.
Thanks dear everyone in my life!
See more progress on: Earn MFA in poetry
This is a collaboration between Walter Vandervelde (Moorlandt) and myself. Moorlandt wrote and played the piano. I wrote the melody and lyrics, which I sing.
I took my exams, had my thesis defense, got responses from Gerald Stern, and turned in a copy of my thesis to the graduate college for review purposes.
Gerald Stern was really tough, but that meant a lot to me. There were words he circled and just wrote, “no.” Ha ha. That’s why I chose him. I thought he’d be that direct. Anyway, because he’s so unafraid to write down what he really thinks, when he complimented me on successful poems, I felt it was genuine.
Oh, also, I got my regalia last Thursday, and graduation is May 9th! I’m sure I’ll have separation anxiety soon!
See more progress on: Earn MFA in poetry
I sent my thesis off to both Gerald Stern and my poetry guru, Kathleen Peirce. I have scheduled my comprehensive exams for the weekend of March 20th, and my thesis defense will occur on April 2nd. My MFA seems very reachable now.
This is a collaboration between Steve Craig, Bob Dorsey, Philip VanDusen and myself.
My last semester of my MFA degree has begun and things are going just fine. My new students seem great, I’ve been reading A LOT, and the first draft of my thesis is done. Cyrus and Nick have given me great advice, opening my thesis to some great possibilities. I’ll be working on these (mostly about structuring the book of poems) for the next few weeks, and then I’ll be sending the manuscript to Gerald Stern, my adjunct reader, for further comments.
