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I’m taking a little break from my homework. I have a big assignment due tomorrow and I’m not even close to being done, but I want to tell about my day.

First off, I nearly stepped on a copperhead snake in the yard today. Very scary! They are so poisonous. I’m so glad it wasn’t one of the kids out there.

I volunteered at the school today in my son’s kindergarten class and my daughter’s fourth grade class. It was a fun day and it made me feel less worried about ...

First thing and the most important thing about this blog entry, please read my short story "The Sun at the End of Life" and please give me feedback, especially where I can improve the story: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=37956. This was my entry into the Aug 08 competition and nearly won. Shucks, so close.

Second, I'm back from vacation as you can see. It was a driving trip. Round trip this took 1735 miles (2778 km), and the main thrust ...

Dreamland

I have been living in a dream
a dream I created with my own hands
where I like to walk around
within the halls of this darkness

Silence echoes surround me
and I feel the velvet walls
as they embrace me

Feathers fall around me
where the white raven
watches with oracle eyes

In a distant sky
the music plays
while all the stars
fall into the sea ...

Background info; The last time he contacted me was about a month or so ago via phone for a little chat (because he was bored basically) but during that conversation he mentioned a website he was uploading his work to (and when I say mentioned I mean complained about how it'd been down for the past month or so) Anyway, about a week or so ago I was thinking about nothing really. As I'd been reading a bit of manga I started thinking about writing my own, problem is even if my writing were good enough ...

Today in English, we did a Literary Lingering about a poem. The poem depicted a goldfish whose 5-second memory kept him constantly amused by the plastic castle in his bowl instead of his greatest desire-- living free in the ocean whish he could see from the window ledge his bowl sat on.
This is what I wrote...

'~*~'

It's people. We never have the chance to long for greater things, or be a part of greater things for we are too distracted with the shiny, petty castles in our lives. ...