Blogging Blues

April has been my worst blogging month since I started almost a year ago. In fact, none of my writing has been going well--that is I haven't done much writing. I've been keeping up with my morning pages (even though the term "evening pages" is more accurate for a a few entries), made some half-hearted attempts at working on a poem, but that's about it.

It's not for lack of subject matter: I had many ideas--things I'm reading, TV shows and movies I've been watching, the cancellation of One Life to Live and All My Children, our Gettysburg weekend.

I guess I've just been pre-occupied with other things--a surge of last-minute tutoring students for the May SAT, research for the condo renovations that we're finally ready to start, schedule adjustments to Jeff's new project in downtown Manhattan.

I miss writing--I need to do more of it--blogging, poetry, essays, longer pieces.

I feel a little awkward writing about not blogging. It's not that I have a big audience clamoring for my posts. As far as I know, I have five readers. But I know how disappointed I get when I go to a blog and it's not updated. I owe it to myself--if no one else--to post more.

May will be better.

Anniversary

I usually think of anniversaries as happy occasions, celebrations. But sometimes they represent sad memories such as my recent post about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://lynnecoll.blogspot.com/2011/03/sad-anniversary-thetriangle-shirtwaist.html.

Today is the one year anniversary of my father's death. Today we head to Gettysburg for one last farewell.

Republican-Threatened Government Shutdown: A War on Women

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07/pelosi-there-is-a-war-on-women/ Federal funding for abortion is already banned under the Hyde Amendment. Regardless, abortion should not be a part of a budget debate. I am shocked at the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood even though I said thirty years ago that Republicans were against contraception http://lynnecoll.blogspot.com/2011/03/not-posting.html.

Writing Poetry

One of my recent posts was about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://lynnecoll.blogspot.com/2011/03/sad-anniversary-thetriangle-shirtwaist.html. After I wrote that post, I watched an HBO special about the fire. It was compelling--I transcribed several lines as I watched. There was a poem somewhere in there. I made my first attempt. It didn't flow. Sometimes poems have to be birthed over a long period of time. Sometimes they end up as something other than a poem. That's what happened with my Mets piece. Whatever. I'll keep working on it because I know something is there.

Spring is Here

I watched the weather report this morning--for the next week--the highs are forecast in the 50's--the end of this long damn winter. Yes I am apparently obsessed with weather just like I said here: http://lynnecoll.blogspot.com/2011/03/weather-watching.html.

On my morning walk with Spike today, I saw forsythia and daffodils, the other day I saw crocuses. Ah spring.