Breezes Covered
Back from walk/jog in BV heights with Alice & Kerouac. Still set on no wine tonight. Forgot I have to be at the Estate at 8am, for topping, tasting, possible racking. Thinking that sulfuring 1 more...
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Picture from Vault– 6.7 miles. That’s what we did, my co-worker, I. No notes taken in TR, today. But, I did go in early, topping both wines with their respective selections.. Grenache for NDC, PV...
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Disappointed in last night’s session. Supremely, actually. Didn’t print. Didn’t produce a single standalone. Tonight, not same. Going to surprise Self, like the other night when I ordered those...
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7:03am. In a bit of a toxic tilt, this morning. Sipping coffee, but I’m NOT fond of what it’s saying to me. Tomorrow, 34. What can the writer do, but forward with these new ideas, approaches– to be...
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Grades due 5/30. How am I going to get that done? Tomorrow, or Thursday morning, afternoon. 10:15pm. Back from dinner with Mom & Dad. Sipping night’s cap, Little Sumpin’. Working tomorrow, on...
View ArticleWorlds Slept
34– Here. Turbulent morning, not being able to find a writer’s keys, but here I am… Stopped by a mixer at one of the new tasting Rooms in the valley, Naked Wines, in the old St. Francis, then...
View Article“It’s your life…you have your choice,”
Grandma said. But before our visit, I was on a mountaintop tour, bringing with it a proposal, hidden photographers when we arrived. Someone drove them up before hand. Than young man’s speech to his...
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Still at home. Jackie, asleep. Haven’t had a chance to go out and write. When I do, only bringing Comp Book. And only writing verse, poetry.. three standalones in 2 hours. My goal. Tonight,...
View Article6:23am and in
a fanged mood already. You know why, you know and you know me and you know it would fracture my mood, either slightly or significantly, that review. Mendo. I’ll specify, why not, what do I have to...
View Article10/30 journal excerpt…
…maybe I shouldn’t be so judgmental or presupposing. Maybe he owns his own business, contracts this work and does quite well. I don’t have for– that’s at the peak, the highest and most atmospheric of...
View Article12/21/14
Only days left in year and I’m thinking of reshaping, redoing, but that’s not what I need do. I should ….. I don’t know. But I’m thinking. Just know I’m thinking. And the coffee helps. How to get...
View ArticleAnd tonight we ordered in from Monti’s..
me getting the flank and Alice getting that chicken, can’t remember how it’s prepared. And with the Queen’s order, I open a bottle of the ’10 Sophia’s Hillside Cuvée, Lancaster of course. Decided to...
View Article032015 session
One hour and one minute to jam with likes of Evans, Hutcherson, Davis.. when I was in high school, I think freshman and sophomore years, I loved the word and concept of ‘Apex’.. ‘an apex’. Just the...
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All on the adjunct desk with me. Woke this morning at 4:03 and couldn’t back into sleep slide. So I’m here, presently 5:44AM and I only want to write. Was thinking on the way over “What if I had...
View ArticleBefore Bed note….. from an adjunct
Run tomorrow, before winery, only 3 miles. Coffee then writing. Hoping I wake at five, and hoping Jackie sleeps through night. The last couple have been trying, especially for Ms. Alice. Posted 1A...
View Articlequick morning note–
Started novel writing for day and I’m restless, after one cup unfocused but evermore focused after seeing the house that could our house, yesterday. Have to get through the student papers– frustrated...
View ArticleIn Class: an adjunct note
Group work. They pretend, some of them. But most are truthful and want to follow the prompt; they walk with each other in ideas, talk and exchange, finding quotes to prove their points, or single...
View ArticleVintaged Mood Mud
Clocking in late, 9:51.. rough morning with little Kerouac and his unwillingness to go to school, get ready, just being defiant to I believe see how I’d react.. but I’m here now with my head in a...
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He finished the glass and thought, thought about what he was supposed to think, of his first vintage, 2012, a Merlot, and what, what was he supposed to think. He’d start his label, yes, but Merlot.....
View ArticleIn Adjunct Office
And tired. No mood for anything, even with the coffee posing its puissance.. After 1A go to bank, then to home, and after 1B work around condo.. nothing Literary about the day, or that I can see so...
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