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Hello, beautiful nobody and everybody. Spring is all up in your business, no? Yes.

Please take a moment from your frolicking to read my interview with writer Steve Almond, here at Knee-Jerk Magazine. Congrats to Knee-Jerk for getting honorable mention (along with Cerise Press and Slush Pile) as best new online journal/magazine from storySouth's Million Writers Award competition. Top honors went to kill author, which published my short fiction, Sex in Secret, in Issue Two. They're already working on Issue Six, those busy anonymous editors.

And now back to spring: trail-walking (and there's Christopher on his bike. Hi, Christopher!), eating Indiana honey crisp apples at Locally Grown Gardens (Chef Ron rules: he quotes Ice Cube, plays reggae nonstop, and refers to "the culture-transgressive gift of fruits and vegetables"), picking up the pot of tulips knocked over by squirrel or wind for the second time today. Squirrel, I know it's you. But I shake your tiny, grimy paw today, pally-o. Frolic away.

Oh! Here is another thing to lose track of.

I'm a big fan of placeholders. Objects or notes or bookmarks to remind me of the things I mean to do. I'm prone to slowness. Let's call it deliberateness: the page turned down, half the cookie saved for later, the flowerbeds unfinished as I wait to see how they fill in. So. This page is a placeholder of sorts, because it does not take a schedule-ologist to predict that this semester is going to put me in a headlock. But I do hope to return to the page. This one, and others.

Before WWF Teachers' Edition begins, there's stuff out there to read. Like kill author's Issue Two, which features poetry and prose by all kinds of folks, including me. And of late I have poems at juked and Tipton Poetry Journal.

And there's stuff to watch, too. As of right this second, this clip has received 16,548 views. I will admit to 112 of them.