This Week: Things That Made Me

Happy:

Creative Writing instructor wrote to tell me that among Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and song lyrics, my poem "The Skirmish" was turned in by one of his students for a favorite poem assignment.

Hopeful:

On two occasions, Gideon held his own bottle.

Tingly:

Lolita & Gilda

Pissy:

Chris' buzz cut.