Sunday, January 02, 2011

Resolution

Oh dear. No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth (although my laptop has enough sticky/cranky keys that if I'm not careful my spelling will fall off the face of the earth). Honest.

I haven't been writing much lately, and since this is allegedly a writing/poetry-focused blog I haven't felt like I've had much to say. But I do value the community of poet-bloggers, and I'm determined to remain a part of it, even if only in a smallish way. So, at least for now, I'm going to try to post weekly, and not ask more of myself than that. And I'll get back to reading y'all's blogs too, at least weekly. Surely I can set aside an hour or so on Sunday evenings. Right? Right.

So 2010 is over, and here's 2011. Best thing that happened to me in 2010 was getting bekittened - Tamarin is growing like crazy, happy and healthy and getting along beautifully with Bear and Lotus, the older cats. Here's a video of her about a month ago. She loves to snuggle up on my lap underneath the laptop where it's nice and warm, although now she's much bigger and it's a bit of a tight squeeze for her. (Those of you I see on Facebook & Twitter have already seen this one.) Turn up the sound; there's purring...



As for poetry - I don't believe in writer's block, but I haven't been writing much lately - but I have faith that I'll get back to it soon. I'm not going to AWP this year, sadly; I really really wish I could, but I just can't swing it financially. Next year, maybe.

So... welcome, 2011. Welcome, anyone who still drops by this blog to see if anything is here. I've got some ideas for new posts, and planning to post weekly should help me be more thoughtful about content & actually write stuff up ahead of time. I have good intentions about sending poems out more often this year, too - that is if what I've got out ever comes back (my late summer/fall submissions seem to have accidentally targeted themselves to the particularly slooooooow response-time journals, sigh).

Intentions, resolutions, whatever... I know where the road goes that is paved with them, but we'll see what happens, eh? :)

9 comments:

Kristin Berkey-Abbott said...

Welcome back! I've missed your writing.

Leslie said...

Ditto. And I've loved the facebook kitten updates!

Sandy Longhorn said...

Welcome back and thanks for the kitteh video. I'm sure you know that as that kitten grows, she will continue to want that spot under the laptop no matter what (and in my house, she would win). :)

Anonymous said...

Hurrah, kitty! And I turned out to have sent all my poems to sloooow places too. Didn't mean to, how'd that happen?

Happy New Year, Anne!

Lyle Daggett said...

And to think that all this time I'd been guessing that you had finally given in to your lifelong dream and hired on as a roadie with the E Street Band. :)

Pamela Johnson Parker said...

Happy New Year, Anne. I hope this will be a wonderful year for you.

Unknown said...

Hi Anne! Finally! The world makes sense again.

Anne Haines said...

Thanks so much, all! It's nice to know my readership hasn't completely evaporated during my little hiatus. :)

Abhijit said...

Glad to find your blog..nice writing..Hope your laptop come back to life soon!