In the meantime, all three of my school-age boys have made it back to school. Tammy and I have purchased school supplies, back-to-school clothing, paid assorted fees, and have already started receiving requests for more money. (One thing about public schooling: They just keep asking for more-more-more.)
Of course, part of the fun of back-to-school shopping is buying up loads of cheap writing supplies, including 50-cent (the price, not the rapper) Composition Notebooks. And 24-pack Crayola crayons for a quarter. Wow!
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As part of the back-to-school madness, Tammy and I registered Reese for Cub Scouts, and somehow--don't ask me how--I became a den leader. I'm actually very excited and overwhelmed by the whole process, but mostly excited. So, Mr. Brewer is now the Den Leader of Den 2 in Pack 420 (yes, I'm aware that the pack number is what it is).
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Baby Will has been talking more and more, and I'm pleased that one of his most essential (and most used) words is book. Of course, he also says a lot of other things, but he loves to sit with ma and da and eese and read a book.
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Also, I've had a bunch of poems accepted for publication this summer from a series of poems I've been writing. (Click here to read about how that process developed.) So far, I've written 43 poems and have had 10 accepted--just this summer!
- MiPOesias accepted the first poem
- Hobble Creek Review accepted five poems
- Ghost Ocean Magazine accepted two poems
- The Smoking Poet accepted two poems
So, that's been exciting as well.
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One last note: I've decided to start training for the Atlanta Half-Marathon on Thanksgiving Day. I'm mostly just including that information in this post as a form of peer pressure. Now that I've said, I need to do it.
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