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Ye Olde Renaissance Woman

September 21, 2010

demoYe Olde Renaissance Woman rises from the ashes of Ye Olde Font Shoppe. We are no longer publishing small press poetry books but if you're looking to do that email me and I'll recommend a new publisher. However, I moved to Tennessee and have decided to freelance the many skills I have accumulated over my years as a computer programmer, teacher, martial artist, crafter, and poet. Come back and see what I may have to offer you!

 

RecentEvents:

Moved to Tennessee

August 02, 2010

After fifteen years in Connecticut, my itchy feet told me it was time to move south again. The background picture at the top of the page and the pictures in these sidebar items are views from my street. I think I'll stay for awhile. At least another 15 years.

My Laser Light Show

Random Thoughts

DON'T PANIC.

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;/ Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats

"I tried hard to tell you I was no kinda dancer.  Take my hand, to prove I was wrong.  You got at my gently, till I started to notice, We were dancin' together by the end of the song." - Robert Earl Keen.

Epitaph on Gravestone: Enjoy Life! This is not a dress rehearsal for the real thing.

Yes we can!

The difference between an optimist and pessimist is the that an optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist is afraid the optimist is right…

"You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Q. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?  A: That's not funny

"Poets tell many lies." - Solon, 638-559 BC

Thus spake the master programmer:   A well-written program is its own heaven;   a poorly-written program is its own hell."

I want to be able to eat all the Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream that I want and never gain a pound.

Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

"If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you some art, a Picasso or a Garfunkel."  Barenaked Ladies

Being 4th of 5 children in an abusive household, I learned how to get around the rules early.  I saw what my older sisters and brother did that got punished, and I made sure I didn't get caught.  To all appearances I seemed the ideal honor student.  My parents didn't have any idea of my after dark activities.  I have come to expect that anything enjoyed must come after dark.

"All poets are mad." - Robert Burton, 1577-1640.

Beam me up Scotty.  There's no intelligent life here.

"We made mad love, shadow love, random love and abandoned love, not exactly like a martyr." - Warren Zevon.

I want to be allowed to be a woman when I want to be and a girl when I want to be.  But never expect me to be a lady.

"Poets' food is love and fame."- Percy Bysshe Shelly, 1792-1822

Q. How many Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?  A: Four.  One to change the lightbulb and three to share in the experience.

Save the whales, collect the whole set.

Thus spake the master programmer:  "Without the wind, the grass does not move.  Without software, hardware is useless."

An optimist thinks that rose soup will taste better than onion soup because roses smell better than onions.

Do you know where your towel is?

"You never understood that it ain't no good./You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you." - Bob Dylan.

If wishes were Porsches, beggars would drive.

"I've never been a fool, but I will gamble foolishly.  I've never given up on love till I lost it in my dreams." -Nanci Griffith.

Call me baby if I lie naked and helpless in your arms.  Call me honey if my kisses are so sweet you want to eat them on biscuits for breakfast.  Call me lover if we share a love that cannot be denied.  Call me sweetheart if you can reach through the hard world to my heart, show me sweetness in your soul. But if we meet with no romantic claim, call me by my name.