Better publicity

http://coehp.uark.edu/

Check out our smiling faces at the top of the COEHP website.

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Group Pix

in helping with your transition back from the Summer Invitational

http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=469

monthly rants

For those interested and awake enough, this link should directly route to a repository of titillating outpourings of frustration and venom.

http://www.nwanews.com/columnist/?paper=bcdr&section=Editorial&columnist=Scott%20Sullivan&coltitle=Another+Look

Clip from Network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew

Tomorrow?

I am spent . . . and completely despondent.

What will I do tomorrow, without all of you to talk with, and laugh with, and CRY WITH?

I have had an amazing summer. I couldn't have asked to spend it with more creative, supportive, wonderful people than all of you.

I will carry each of you with me as I march toward the first day of school.

Thank you.

YoudistractionTube

This is absolutely a priceless clip of the late, great Donald Graves talking about how to start writing. Enjoy.

"OK, Don, how do you create a class of writers?"

"Well the first thing you do is you write yourself. When you sit down to teach the class, you write yourself. What do you write about? You write about the first thing that comes to mind..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_sXJKiiSA&feature=related

Live at Peabody Hall

I wish Sharla and Stephanie would use their inside voices...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-vpLtG_x4

a little preview

Raleigh Roudabush

This is my story. Watch for future productions of "Bigfoot Love"

"It is finished!"

I am so tired of looking at my Anthology Piece that I can't take it any more.

A True Chigger Story

I saw these two red bugs laying in the gutter, looking bleary-eyed and hung over. One of them was saying "Never again" in a high little voice. I was intrigued until these two wasps flew by and saw the little tired bugs. One wasp said tothe other one, "It goes to show you chiggers can't be boozers" Thank you. I'll be here all week.

How to know when you are writing excessively

Only one week remains of the '08 Invitational.  My writing hand may return to normal, but my mind and heart will never be the same.

Media Week

Hey kids, an update for next week. Can you believe its the last week? On Monday we should have T-Shirts and we would like to do a group picture for the paper. The NWA Times reporter is coming on Tuesday to ask questions about this amazing journey you have been on as a professional writer and teacher. Then on Wednesday Kyle Kellams from KUAF will be at 105 Peabody to interview you and hear some of your writing, he will be creating a news story for his radio show "Ozarks At Large" (I'll give you air times later) You do not have to read on the air if you so choose, but it is good publicity for the Writing Project and the teaching profession. as my parenthetical wife says "Just so you know" Continue writing; Anthologies due Monday. I'm writing about lawn mowing, dog washing, and the dangers of nude yard work.

Love ya Big Mike

Freezing Much?

Can anyone guess the identity of the masked lady?

And does anyone else think the higher ups

in CIED might be trying to freeze us out of Peabody? lol.

For all you cell phone addicts

Well... I made some microwave popcorn for dinner tonight... and decided to quick-check my email in between trying not to panic about the genre pieces I might/might not include next week. Anyway, a friend sent this to me and I couldn't resist but to pass it along. (I'm still working on my Southern dialect and colloquialisms.)
Hope you're able to click and get the link, otherwise copy and paste:
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/portable/video/x5odhh_pop-corn-telephone-portable-microon_news
I'm curious as to first reactions... I wavered between wanting to have a CTScan, throwing my cell into a bonfire (with popcorn kernels in a dutch oven), and/or trying it out at home--with a slutty martini or three, of course.
Hope the weekend is restful, yet creative!
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