barrington99@gmail.com

Mine are large. I wear a nine and a half, which is not you-have-to-order-them-from-a-special-online-store large, but just slightly larger than average. Average, when I last checked, was about size eight or nine. Most shoe brands will have half sizes up until size nine, and then whole sizes, like this: 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, … Read more

My favorite kind of therapy is massage therapy.

So I am behind on my posting of weekly topics for my synchronized swimming…oops I mean bloggging circle. New topics often occur on Wednesdays, so as of tomorrow I will be down by three: Therapy, Feet, and whatever comes next. It’s a quarter to one in the morning, and I gotta say, I’m feeling good…I … Read more

Well actually just in the house. Paul caught one the other night and let him out. I saw another tonight, turned off the lights and opened the doors, but didn’t see where it went, since the lights were out. My internet research indicates that these are babies, and that they sometimes get a little lost. … Read more

I’ve been buried in writing a seemingly endless essay, and so apologize to my fellow synchonized bloggers for this overdue post, on Katie’s topic: Nudity. Back in my undergraduate days, at Indiana University in Bloomington, I lived in the “Collins Living and Learning Center,” better known to frat boys and others as, “the hippie dorm.” … Read more

Saturday, 4pm You can see people’s energy flagging…nonetheless, I enjoyed panels on “Leading the Double Life,” about the difficulties and benefits of having work in addition to one’s writing, and “I Lie You, I Like You Not,” a panel stock full of FSU friends—Roger, Forrest, Jessica and Jill—that explored what factors contribute to the likeability … Read more

Again, typos and fragments abound… 11 pm Friday I just wimped out early for the evening, and plan to wash the cigarette smell out of my hair and lie around reading in the hotel room bed. But my second day at AWP has been really fun. I started off slow, arriving late to Sandra’s panel, … Read more

The following are unedited recordings of our trip to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference, which is taking place at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta, GA this year..pretty dry for you non-writers…but hey, it’s what I’m up to! If you are a writer, you might want so see Susie’s photos of the … Read more

I’ve had many, and have a few at the moment, but the one that is always special to me is my Bindi Zit. For anyone not familiar with the term, a bindi is a painted decoration worn between the eyebrows by women in South Asian countries like India. Although traditionally the mark has a religious … Read more