Welcome to my blog! Here’s the point:
Regardless of the topic, I want to open conversations about the elephants in the rooms of our lives. Each perspective is a valid view of the issue at hand, but it is the composite of them that reveals the true nature of the problem. That is the point. I am not here to rant. I […]
Getting rid of draft material
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on March 30th, 2010
Just a quick FYI, for all you new visitors to my site: I will be deleting much of the poetry here soon and beginning to post regularly again. Basically, I took a chunk of time to get all my other little ducks in a row, and the last round of posts were a […]
Tell us where to go.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on January 12th, 2010
Our family is planning to embark on a monumental road trip over the summer of 2010, a kind of “Job Hunt U.S.A.,” and we need your help. We are not looking for tourist traps. We are looking for real information about your area of the country. We want to know what the job climate is […]
I wrote 50,000 words in one month and–
All I got were these stupid pictures and some self esteem.
The good news is, they can go on your Facebook or Twitter, or even your blog!
The bad news is, I’m not sure if I can figure out how to replace my face with this on my twitter account.
Or if I even want to. My […]
Sharing our abundance
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 23rd, 2009
Thanksgiving has always been, for me and for most people, I think, about family gatherings. The thing I realized this year that I hadn’t considered before is that they were also exclusively family gatherings.
Those of us fortunate enough to get together don’t usually consider those outside of our family when making invitations. Of […]
Reacting like an alcoholic
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 16th, 2009
In addressing the whole idea of people who think like criminals, however minor the infractions may be, and the ghetto mindset in which people won’t talk to the police because they are afraid of the repercussions, there is another issue that goes hand in hand: substance abuse and the patterns that develop because of […]
Days 8 – 12 of the PAD chapbook challenge
I had been wrestling with so many things the last few days, my novel included, I just couldn’t settle my brain down enough for poems. And then it all came in a rush. You know, where your soul is cracked and something happens to pry it open and everything just pours out? Yeah, like that.
I’m […]
Day 6: Covered
“Patterns”
Tight
Frames,
Words
Controlled
Once
Daily.
Big
Picture,
Words
Multiplied
Each
Session.
Poetry
Produces
Chemistry,
Making
Novels
Possible.
Dreams
Plucking
Plots
From
Subconscious
Wanderings.
November
Brings
Cohesion,
Chapbook
Releases
Abandon.
Stretching
Vocabulary
Stimulates
Covering
Revealed
Bases.
Round
Corners,
Smooth
Edges,
Tying
Ends.
Welcome Elephants twittering in anticipation!
If you’re interested in what I’m writing, be it here or for the paper or in pursuance of creative bliss, check out my twitter feed by clicking on the icon under my picture. I’m just getting the hang of all this technology, but since my awesome husband set me up right nice, I figure […]
PAD, Day 4: “Maybe _____”
Maybe she can do it
On her own
With no one around
To hold her to it.
Maybe I can do it
On my own
With no one around
To drag me back in.
Maybe we can do it
On our own
With no one around
To hold us back now.
Maybe God can do it
On His own
With no one around
To tell him how to.
It’s not even about the acts themselves.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on November 1st, 2009
It brought to mind a man from a neighboring county that introduced himself while I was eating lunch during the summer when I was doing adwork for the newspaper. He found out I was a reporter and promptly said, “I have a story for you. It’s a discrimination case.” I said, “Oh yeah?” and he […]
About Me
A burgeoning writer and journalist, I am currently reporting for the Ozarks Sentinel newspaper. I wanted to create a place to talk about the pink elephants trumpeting in rooms across the globe.
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