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This poem is still being written, so I'm looking for real critiques here. I'm just not sure it's done. I may leave it up a little longer than normal allow more time for contemplation. As always, all comments will remain live. Thank you all for posting comments and taking time to read!

I’ve used this space to talk about this before, but I want to do so again. I’ve been supplementing my income for years by participating in online surveys, focus groups, paid tasks/trial offers, and paid emails/videos.  I generally do most of these tasks while watching television or doing other tasks so they really don’t take any extra time and I’ll see anywhere from $25- 200 in a given month. I thought I’d share some links with you here. I will not go into much detail, but I can vouch for them all. I would advise you to sign up for all of them, read the tutorials, try them out, and then decide which ones work best for you. I am an active member of well over twenty sites and it’s very manageable, though I do advise you open a separate e mail account so your personal and/or work one doesn’t get flooded. All links below are personalized referral links, unless otherwise stated. Please e mail me where specified, as some sites only have referral links available via e mail. Al...

Thanks to Audra Leigh Fisher for helping me workshop this. The poem will be up for 24 hours, though I will be retaining the post and your comments, so feel feel to comment and critique. This poem is currently going through the submission process. It will be removed from this space at 9:10 am Thursday, Feb 19th. Thank you all for reading and commenting. I hope you enjoyed this first installment and I hope you enjoy the future ones. I appreciate your input! You may see another draft of this version at some point, here or on hubpages.

Greetings my friends, I trust that you all paid, filed, or evaded your taxes yesterday. I'm thankful for all my new followers. My latest hub, Bricks , was very misunderstood. I am not leaving Hubpages, I am merely changing my direction. The reasons for this are two fold. 1. I do not want to have anything I have a personal, emotional attachment to to be stolen. If I'm pouring my heart and soul into something, I don't want some no talent hack stealing from it and profiting from it. Hubpages is now a big enough site that it's a target for thieves and as such, I will mostly be publishing works like my music hubs, my TV show hubs, advice and recipes. I will not be removing any hubs, but I will likely not be publishing any first time poems or short stories to my hub anymore. However, if they have been published elsewhere or soundly rejected tons of times, then it will go up. It'll just be less frequent. Which brings me to point number two, and then my announcement...

A Very young Bella Blue April fifth has always been a sad day for me. That was the day, when I was thirteen years old, that Kurt Cobain died. I wrote about that day here: But now, I have reason to be happy. My dog, Bella Blue, was born on April 5th 2009. Bella is a very loving and rambunctious labradoodle. So, Happy Birthday Bella Blue. Enjoy these pictures! Add caption My wife , before she was my wife, and a very young labradoodle named Bella Blue This one makes me think of Peter Griffin MMM. Food Bella at our wedding Curious serious sisters Dancing at our wedding Baby, bella's sister Bella kissin the bride At our wedding And again

I'm very frustrated with hubpages at the moment. Not only does my hubber score keep dropping (and I have no idea how it's determined, but, I do know if I fall below 75, I get the dreaded "no-follow" attached to my profile. I recently published a piece called Loudbraries and it keeps getting denied publication as"substandard". The frustrating part is, I do not write substandard anything. moreover, they haven't shown me what specifically they take objection with, so, even though I've edited it, I keep resubmitting it and it keeps getting denied. I'm probably flirting with a ban, but that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. This has never happened and it's very frustrating for me. If this keeps up, i will simply publish the article here. But, enough of that. My poem I Spilled My Corn Flakes was published on the hub several months ago. I was never happy with the format over there, so, I've decided to republish it here in the ...

Here it is My last term at Portland Community College begins next week and then, hopefully, off to Portland State University to get my bachelors. I'll then move on somewhere else to get my masters and, eventually, my PhD. Right now, it's nice to have some time off. I have high hopes for all the things I'll accomplish, though, in reality, I will probably rest most of the  time and leave my tasks for when school starts again. I have a poetry reading this evening and I'm getting closer and closer to read finishing my book. I've published quite a few articles this week. If you haven't read them, please do by clicking on the links below, if you're on spring break, have a nice one, and thanks for stopping by! Wizzley HubPages