Posted by TayariJones on December 12, 2007 12:56 PM
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Travels & Rambles
Ed Champion has tagged me for a very unsual meme. The blogger has to post the first line of the first post of each month of 2007. Okie dokie. Here goes--
January- Over the New Year's holiday, my cat, Johnny Baby, was banished to the animal hotel.
February- On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of visiting Mills College, in Oakland at the invitation of Cornelia Nixon, a terrific novelist and cool individual.
March- Yesterday, Lee Smith and I were on the program at The Margaret Mitchell House.
April- I am thrilled to tell you that Aletha Spann of 30Nineteen Productions has renewed her option on the film rights for Leaving Atlanta.
May- My friend, Jaci, called me on the phone about a month ago. "I'm in love," she sighed.
June- As you all know, I sometimes find myself in conversations with writers, and I will cut them off in mid-sentence and say "Please write about this for the blog community!"
July- So, on my way back to DC, I had to change planes in a major airport.
August- In 2004, I applied and was accepted to Cave Canem’s (CC) New York regional poetry workshop with Patricia Smith and, as my mother would say, “[began] to smell myself” soon after.
September- I am so sorry for the silence here on the blog.
October- Up and at 'em, folks. Here's a little reading while I figure out how to operate my espresso machine.
November- I am just getting back from Washington, DC where I gave a reading and workshop at American University.
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