Well, I thought I needed more poetry in my life, so I wrote some. (By some, I mean one short poem.) And subscribed to the Writer’s Almanac RSS feed. I’m not done being grumpy with NPR, but it’s hard for me to stay mad a Garrison Keillor for long. In other news, the girls and I have all had a simultaneous cold, but the suffering should be over soon. As should school – two more days and exams for me! Despite how ready I was for the end, it has snuck up very quickly. And without further adieu or any more sentences beginning with conjunctions (don’t tell my English teacher)…here is the poem, incomplete, perhaps, and titleless as yet, but my first in a very long time.
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As Promised…
Here is the letter I sent to NPR. I actually had to break it into two for the emails, because of the 6,000 character limit, but I think that may have actually helped each topic to recieve proper focus. I don’t really expect anything to come of this, but there is this tiny hope that they’ll read a couple of lines of mine on air. Mine, instead of the thousands of other comments they get each week. I can dream, right?
Anyway, if you are wondering what I’m talking about, read the previous post and the links in it, and hopefully you’ll see why I thought I should say something. So after all the stalling, here it is…
I’m a person, not a “childbearing goal”
Just in case anyone was unsure.
Sometimes NPR makes me sad. These two stories ran back to back on Monday, and I’m trying to decide which part to focus my angry/disappointed/how can people really think this way?! letter on. (The text on the page is not the same as the story that you’ll hear if you click the “Listen Now” button at the top – they cut whole paragraphs, but actually come out as two significantly different stories.)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103211630
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103270766
