FirstBlog

T his is my first blog featuring a guest blogger. I've been wanting to do this for awhile, figuring that my fans were tired o f hearing me ramble on and on and on. The subject of this blog is poet/photographer Audra Leigh Fisher. She hails from Fairport New York, located nine miles east of Rochester. Also known as "The Crown of the Erie Canal", the village has a population of just over 5300. She's lived in this town most of her life but claims to be "T he opposite of Fairport but [I] fit in on the beach at Durand on Lake Ontario. I just live and breath[e] here. [My boyfriend] Micah and my family are here. And what is familiar and safe I guess. I reflect on inanimate objects and wild life more than people...less conflict." When I learned several weeks ago that my HUBPAGES colleague, Audra Leigh Fisher, was leaving the site, I wanted to know why. I asked Audra to share her story in her own words. I hope you'll find it interesting and I hope th...

I recently started writing for Wizzley, so now you can follow my writing here on blogspot, on hubpages and on wizzley . My Wizzley page is going to be exclusively art analysis, namely film, poetry and fiction. I published my first article yesterday, which was an analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's Poem Filling Station . It received 42 hits in the first 12 hours (which I consider rather impressive do to the niche like subject matter and my new author status) and was actually given an Editor's Choice Award within the first thirty minutes. My skeptical nature had me believing that, perhaps, this award was given out to all new Wizzley authors to sorta bait them into staying, but, after further research, I discovered this is a legitimate award and my article was moved to the front page and featured. Further research and I discovered that I was only the third author on Wizzley to have their first article awarded the Editor's Choice Award. It's an author and my initial experi...