My website's a little off lately. By lately, I mean going on over a year now. There's probably a way to fix the problems, but I'm out of my depth as to how.

Words only come when everything is over, when things have calmed down. They refer only to memory, and are either powerless or untruthful.
—Alphonse Daudet

You have to abbreviate into intensity.

—Francis Bacon 

There’s not much in the world that I love. It seems like it’s basically a 24/7 disappointment machine. But it’s the things that you do manage to love that make the world bearable.

Semicolons are my favorite piece of punctuation, and now there's an article about them in The New York Times; I couldn't be happier.

(An Explanatory Note: The following went up on the blog that I started after this website went down, in mid-July of 2007. It's been on that blog since, but now that my website is operational again, I thought that I'd repost it here.)

27 February 2007 - 27 August 2007

The Fresno Poets' Association is hosting a reading on 7 February 2008 in celebration of Philip Levine's 80th birthday, and I'm lucky enough to have been asked to be one of the readers.

After being down since the middle of last July, my website's up and running again. As soon as I have anything interesting to write, you'll be the first to know.