Gotta love the homes in texas

      

      

texas

      

      

my trip to texas

      

      

      

Gym short story

   

We'd like to take time for everyone to introduce themselves.  Shiva began.  After you introduce yourself, if you would like to make an announcement you could at this time.  We can't hear you.  I cant hear you.  Spoke a member.  Shiva glanced at the mic in her hands and shook it like a babies rattle.  She spoke louder giving and came off like an angry lion.  Speaking loudly just so happened to rackle her throat, getting a lap ban put in last summer caused her voice to become raspy due to the oxygen the they shoved down her throat.

 

      
st. paul public library 

Brainstorming

  Brainstorming 

Short story ideas... I'm thinking of expanding on this story I wrote earlier about private school kids turning into monsters.  Or a short mystery piece that has to do with kidnapping, or a piece about an early century writer who is sent on an assignment. Or a piece about a women with a mental illness who struggles to raise her children in a society where people are looking for ways to get her children taken away but she has tricks up her sleeve to make sure that won't happen.


Picture taken of an elevator in Downtown, St Paul library

      

Writing: a life unlike dancing

I just finished watching a small documentary about being a ballet artist at NY ballet on Youtube and a lot of what the dancers do remind me of what I am doing as a writer.

 I wake up in the early morning and go to a writer's group with a group of people who have the writing tools in hand and their notebooks  and we all know each other and what we have in mind that day and we come listening and share our laughter over each other's pieces but for some of us, this is very serious warm-up to something bigger, something that we practice three or four times a week.

For instance for me I go to writer's group on Wednesday nights, this group involves me to critique and comment on other writers work, it requires me to to take at least four hours to read each of their 10-18 page stories that are part of a larger book that their working on.  Then every morning I spend 1-2 hours writing my own stories. 

 Every second and third Saturday I participate in book club which allows me to read at least two novels a month and do commentary on a the book with other writers.  I read daily so that I can write better but for writers we are not put in this program like the NY ballet students where we are skilled and drilled at a very young age to dance to our fullest degree every day from the beginning of our adolescence. A lot of being a writer has to do with writing on our own time in the wee hours that we in between activities that sustain the other part of our lives that does not contain writing.

Shakopee vs. Champlyn Park basketball Tournament

      

Shakopee squared off in a game against Champlyn Park at the Target center.   Lakeville North and Apple Valley High school helped Shakopee Cheer their way through the game.

What I had to love about the tournament was:

Apple Valley pep squad dressed in beach outfits: tank tops, sun hats and swim shorts

I loved the size of Lakeville North's high school band

I also liked the newest addition to the concept of cheering including holding miniature flashlights to distract players during their free throws. 

I also liked the cheers including, "I think were going to win, I think were going to win."

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Veronica's Room

      
I went to see Veronica's Room at Ames Theater in Burnsville, Minnesota.

  Now, I love the emotions of the theater like anyone else but during this performance I sympathized with the character to such an extent that I was having anxiety about what it would be like to be looked up in a room and not know what my captors had in store for me.