I love how summer lets you be whatever you want to be.
It doesn't matter if you have blue toenails or wear a tank top without a bra, for the season it seems
you just are, who you wish to be.

I recently got a new job that I've been wanting for quite a while. I'm working for the Culture and Heritage Museums here in Rock Hill and mainly at Historic Brattonsville. My first full day on the job, I got to do a site tour, search for a black snake (who likes to hang out in Colonel Bratton's house..on his bed), and feed our on site hogs a bag of apples (one whose name is Boris which makes me think of Boris the Blade from Snatch).

There are so many things inspiring me lately, it could be that I'm excited about my fourth residency next week for my MFA program at Converse College and working with Denise Duhamel again. It also could stem from the happiness I feel for feeling like I'm actually accomplishing something lately. It physically and mentally hurts to be stuck in the tar like mud of job searching, especially when you're so sick of going of tooting along to mediocre job after another..
I'm not saying those smaller jobs don't matter, because those of us that have worked them really want the public we are interacting with daily, to understand how appreciative a kind word can be over a sandwich or latte order.

Today was my fiance and my first Target "scan gunning" trip. We created a Target wedding registry and had a cow playing with the scan gun. It's nice to think about piecing together our "married couple" home in the near future. Already full of our experiences, things we want to learn and tuck to our memory; which makes me think of one of those multicolor pot holders I used to weave for family members and all the colors just seemed to compliment and work together somehow.