Author: Sarra Cannon

After the fire, I never quite got around to replacing all of my beloved books of poetry. Many times, I have gone to the shelf looking for Loveroot, book of poems by Erica Jong, and found that it was gone. I finally went to Amazon.com and bought a used hardback copy, and it arrived yesterday! This book of poetry is probably one of the most touching, life changing books of my life. I am going to share the first poem here, just as a lovesong to Erica Jong and her writing. I guess it is more a series of poems,…

I have decided that it’s time to move on from my 17″ dinosaur of an HP laptop and get something sporty and light. I have already spent many hours surfing the net and looking through office supply and tech stores to find the perfect laptop, and I think I have narrowed down the enormous field. Here are my priorities: *Long Battery Life *Light enough to carry comfortably (3-7 lbs.) *Stylish design *Pink if possible Okay, so I know that it seems ridiculous to list style and color preferences as a priority, but isn’t the way a laptop looks and feels…

I just got back last night from GA, and each way back and forth amounts to about a 470 mile drive. Now, I am all for getting to your destination in the fastest way possible. No back roads or strange routes for me. However, I am also someone who drinks a lot of soda, coffee, juice, water, etc. on a road trip. Beverages help to keep me awake and alert while I’m driving. As you can imagine, with high beverage consumption comes the need to make frequent stops. How many stops? Hmm… I would say on average that I need…

I will be heading home to GA tomorrow to take care of last minute details on the sale of my house. Yay! for selling the house, but Boo! for having to be away from G for almost an entire week. I will take my laptop with me and do my best to update the blog from there, but it’s going to be a very busy week, so the blog will be low priority. If I don’t update, just check back next week, when I will be a much happier sweetie. 🙂 Why happier? Because I will be back in NC…

I read through “A Working Girl Can’t Win” by Deborah Garrison last night, a book of poetry that I absolutely adore. It’s gritty and harsh, but also beautiful and soft at times. I think I will just type out one of the poems that seems appropriate for the end of a winter work week. I dedicate it to T, my working-girl friend (at least the first part she will appreciate 🙂 FIGHT SONG Sometimes you have to say it:Fuck them all. Yes fuck them all –the artsy posers,the office blowhardsand brown-nosers; Fuck the type who gets the job doneand the…

I had a great day yesterday! It was a very not-stressful, relatively uneventful, but still fun birthday. I had a few very important realizations, and I feel that they will lead to a new me emerging. Realization #1 – When I was younger, I believed in myself totally and completely. I knew I was a good singer and that I was smart. I set goals for myself and was confident that I could achieve them. Because I believed in myself, others naturally believed in me too. Confidence is contagious in that way. Somewhere along the line, though, I started depending…