Although I blog fairly frequently, I’m not deluded enough to think that everything I spew out into the world is literary gold, but I have made some posts that I especially like. I thought it might be helpful to collect these in one spot so that people finding my blog for the first time don’t have to slog through all the dross the way my long-term loyal readers have had to do. I didn’t start this WordPress blog until October of 2007, so my archives are a bit patchy since I didn’t move everything over from the old myspace blog.
Some of these I’ve chosen because I thought my writing was pretty good and some I’ve chosen because they seemed to strike chords with more readers than normal, based on the number and quality of comments left.
Take this as a “Best of” list, bearing in mind that it is unabashedly subjective, like People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” list, so feel free to write indignant letters to the editor if you totally disagree and want to illustrate with graphic language just how out of my tree I am.
Late Night, Maudlin Street, Redux
Oh Amo, you came and you something without something
Sun’s So Hot, I Forgot To Go Home
Wherein I reveal the recklessness of my despair
That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.
Heather…
Sometimes I don’t think we know whom we have an affect on – so rather than delve into that notion any further, suffice to say, I’m using your blog as a teaching tool for my very unique class of 16 students (14 are girls). We’re considering the use of metaphors in poetry and blogs. As a matter of fact, I’m calling my recent literature unit “Poetry and Blogs”. And I wanted you to know what a profound affect your blog is having on my students.
I’ve met you before; I’m a friend of Susie’s (Paamul), and just wanted you to know that your lyrical language has not gone unnoticed.
Well done, Heather.
More soon,
love,
Alicia Garcia
Sandia Prep School (and all the adolescents in 3rd period Garcia’s class)
Albuquerque, NM
By: alicia on March 9, 2009
at 8:16 pm
Heather… we’re starting school soon. I need your blog for a teaching lesson! Can you update it soon?? I would bet you have lots of fodder after a long hot summer in Playa. I was there in July… i’m sure you have some snappy anecdote to write about. Waiting….
By: ali on August 9, 2009
at 12:22 pm
Holy cow, Alicia. Thank you so much. You just brought tears to my eyes. What a huge compliment.
By: heatherinparadise on March 9, 2009
at 8:28 pm