yes, i know it has been a LONG TIME! there is so much to say. i don't even know where to begin. my poetry blog makes me really happy. i have some followers and i have been writing so much. feels good. i have also discovered some other great writers in the blogsphere. one of my poems was chosen as poem of the day on a blog site. another essay that i wrote was chosen to be published in an anthology which will be published this summer. YES! i am so happy and excited and grateful and bubbly all over.
teaching is good. i was called a "master teacher" by my principal the other day which is of course flattering. i actually thought i would quit back in november. it wasn't because anything happened, but because i was bored. however, like love, the up and down range of emotions, i am back to my high of teaching. it comes and goes. hey. c'est la vie. and my students clearly love me and i of course, love them. that is such a warm, fuzzy feeling. speaking of students, i got a prank call yesterday on valentine's day of all days from a grown ass man who i didn't know. he claimed he was one of my students, which i don't believe because he didn't sound like the student he said he was. anyhow, he proclaimed he would be my future husband and that he couldn't concentrate in class due to my fat ass...lovely.
in other news, love is good. my husband and i went through a very rough patch in november, the roughest of them all. we went to counseling and it really changed our lives in so many ways. first of all, i realize that he had a lot of repressed anger, which he needed to let out. he let it out in the wrong way, and i believe in my heart that it will never happen again. we have learned to continue to love in the midst of a storm, a tempest to be exact. and that feels good. things have been so much better that i feel like i'm walking on a cloud. however, i know this renewal was due to counseling, prayer, endless support from family/friends, and just plain old love.
well it is no secret that i love to read. i'm always reading. i know and believe that reading makes you a better writer. and reading so much is affecting my writing in a good way. i'm on the site goodreads.com and i have become obsessed. i love updating what book i just finished, while providing a critique of the book. it is so much fun and i have other friends who are just as obsessed with reading and update all the time! haha, so corny! my husband made a joke that if i could, i would probably eat books. LOL.
i am currently rereading The God of Small Things which i read in college during my senior comprehensive exams. i don't remember a thing, but i remember it was amazing, so i'm reading it again. it's so powerful and painful, yet beautiful. thank the heavens for poetry and prose.
i guess i will go back to reading my book for now.
i promise to return sooner rather than later.
peace & nappiness <3
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