The NWSA proposal EM and I submitted together didn't get accepted, but the one I submitted by myself did. I wanted to go with her!
I ran out of moisturizer while traveling with the kids and sampled Nu's Vanicream, and it's a dream. It maybe the one thing Miranda July got right in All Fours. (That and the bit about dogs.)
I got my travel course evals--I got high marks, but very few comments. It would have been nice if some of the nice things people wrote in cards and emails were in the course evals--I'm up for assessment the year after next.
I got a copy of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings from a Goodwill because a student (Hi, CW!) wanted to work on it. I expected to hate every minute of its appropriative voice... but have to say it's quite respectful and suspenseful.
A poetry anthology I have some poems in is now on Amazon and getting promoted heavily by the editors... and I'm worried my mom might see. I know she'll not like that I wrote about some of those topics.
Pic: I watched this frog swim up to the little solar fountain like he was kid in summer camp swimming up to the buoy in the middle of the lake. Their name is Popchyk. (Big A is reading The Goldfinch on my recommendation and we talk about the puppy more than any other character.)