Last day of the year, and last day for these ornament posts. Rather than focus on a single ornament today, I give you all of them in one shot on my little tree. I hope you’ve enjoyed these little vignettes over the past month. I decided to do this as part of a “30-Day challenge” to get me writing every day, to do some memory work, to generate some words for a project I’ve been dabbling with on and off for ten years now called “The ABCs of Bethlehem.” Maybe one day I’ll finish it. I still think I’m too young to be writing any kind of cohesive memoir. And writing about loved ones is always tricky — your memories and interpretations of events can differ from theirs. I’m also not as confident in prose as I am in poetry, so I tend to let the prose pieces sit in their folders rather than try publishing them. Writing here helps lessen the pressure a bit. Anyway, you’ll have a new book of poetry from me in the new year, and who knows, maybe I’ll get around to publishing some of my essays finally.
Have a safe and fabulous evening as you ring in 2014 tonight!
