FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0400 by Jeff Hess
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear by Ralph Keyes.
“The great poet or writer is faced by the dilemma that in order to accomplish his art he must be a selfish person. Think how James Joyce, for example, sacrificed his family.” -Stephen Spender. p. 57
Today I’m at Border’s making use of its extensive magazine rack to look at the next magazines on my list. The goal here is to further winnow my list by deciding which magazines I’d be willing to read at least a year’s worth of issues to figure out what’s been done and what the editor might think of as interesting for an upcoming issue.
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: 
I’ve been chocolate free for more than a month now since I learned from Terry at 
