9/20/2016
It’s my oldest son’s birthday today. I never could have know, twenty-eight years ago, that I wasn’t just having a baby: I was meeting one of my best ever friends.
Make art about adult children. Or about best friends.
With my oldest son J, early 1989
9/21/2016
Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.
9/22/2016
Been thinking all day about living in other times. I would have made a terrible Victorian woman 🙂
Make art imagining yourself in another time, another era.
9/23/2016
Love is a Verb.
Make art about Love in action in unexpected ways.
23 August 2016
I’m getting ready for a week’s worth of travel, so it’s all about making lists this morning.
Make a list (to do, shopping, wishes), then use the list as inspiration. Try to include most of the things you put on the list into what you write.
18 August 2016
Gettin that August blast of summer heat!
“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.”~Violette Leduc
Make art about relentless heat.
19 August 2016
So I stood in my yard today and watched a truck hauling a trailer lose control just long enough to smash my mailbox to smithereens.19 August 2016
Make art about witnessing destruction.
20 August 2016
Visiting with family and looking through some newly discovered old family photographs, including some I’d never seen of that wild lil girl I was 🙂
Make art about yourself as a child.
21 August 2016
My sons helped me shuck, cut, and can six dozen ears of corn today. It’s a messy job, but now the house smells like caramel corn, and we have yummy summer in a jar for those cold winter months.
Make art about a task that’s hard, but worth it.
22 August 2016
I’m headed out later this week for a spiritual retreat and a couple of road trip visits with family. Excited, but fretting over getting all my stuff ready.
Make art about preparing to travel.
17 August 2016
For more information, visit Talk Poverty
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$23,834 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below twice the poverty line—$47,668 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below half the poverty line—$11,917 for a family of four—in 2014
Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of African Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Hispanics who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of non-Hispanic Whites who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Native Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of people with disabilities who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Make art about poverty.
Grateful to some generous lovely people for hosting readings for my crazy lil prose poems 🙂 Upcoming readings this fall, from A Little Blood, A Little Rain (FutureCycle Press 2016), Trailer Park Oracle (Kelsay Books 2016), and The Night I Heard Everything (FutureCycle Press 2015).
August 13 – Scott Depot, WV, Hosted by Mary Imo and John Stike
October 1 – Heritage Village, Calhoun County Park, Grantsville, WV, Hosted by Lisa Hayes Minney
October 19 – Longwood University Writers Reading Series, Farmville VA
October 26 – Waterbean Reading Series, Waterbean Coffee, NorthCross Shopping Center 9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste A, Huntersville, NC
December 5 – Readings on Roslyn, Winston Salem, NC, Hosted by Kathryn Milam
Grateful especially to these generous hosts, and to the publishers who made these books possible ❤
Diane Kistner, Robert S. King, and all the great folks at FutureCycle Press
and
Karen Kelsay Davies, Editor of all All Things at Kelsay Books and Aldrich Press
Please check out their whole beautiful catalogs!
If you’re interested in hosting a reading or event, please contact me at carrollhackettma@gmail.com
11 August 2016
Spent all day canning and preserving food. Always takes me back into the company of all those over time who did this before me, especially the women who taught me, as a child, to can and put up food for the winter.
Make art about food as heritage.
12 August 2016
Was abruptly awakened by a crow at the window, informing me—loudly–that the suet cages needed filling 🙂
Make art about being awakened suddenly.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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