LaToya M. Davidson-Perez

Today was spent somewhat productively. I was at first a little skeptical about the grand undertaking of redoing my website. I don’t do anything small. When I change something it’s huge, a full overhaul. My website was originally self-hosted, a WordPress.org site. Now, well, now, wary of doing the whole self-hosting thing I decided that I’d just move it to WordPress.com. Ages ago I’d already secured the blog, latoyadavidson.wordpress.com. Call it greedy or call it smart, I did so in order to keep the name for myself. Imagine how shocked I became when years ago I found out that my name wasn’t as uniquely my own as I’d hoped it would be.

It’s a bit of money, at least for me it is. In one click (okay, a series of clicks) I was paying another big company money that I don’t have. Trust me when I say that self-hosting is a lot less money. However, there is a bit of piece of mind in simply paying someone else to take care of things. I had so many plugins on my original site and there was always something that needs to be updated. So, now that I have more time on my hands, okay, theoretically I have more time on my hands, I can quickly jump on to post a quick entry. Be sure to check out my poetry page. I realized that there are quite a few more that I need to post and was equally shocked at how many I’ve written over the years. I seriously considered publishing a book of poetry but decided against it. Think about it, when was the last time you or I purchased a book of poetry. Exactly.

So after several hours of editing my site it’s time to call it a night. Staff training day tomorrow and hopefully I’ll post more of my poems. Also, I have a grand idea for my first book! More details to come. I promise.

I thought quite assuredly that it had been much longer since my last post. However, June 2012 was still a relatively long time ago. I find that at this very moment I am both giddy and uncertain. There are so many wonderful things that I’m excited about but I am at a loss in trying to find the right order to do them in. As a result there are moments where I just seem to push paper around.

I just started reading The Great Gatsby last night and was so enthralled that I am again considering publishing my poems and working on a novel or novella. I am certainly no Fitzgerald nor am I as good as my best friend, pulp writer extraordinaire, Barry Reese. I often feel that I don’t have enough life experience and that it will show and be magnified if I attempted to seriously work on a piece. I fear the blinking of the damned insertion point on the page, waiting for thoughts, waiting for the stream of subconsciousness to make itself known. Continue reading “Enter Title Here” →

Last night was the first night that it was just K and I in the bed. After each girl fell asleep K scooped them up and put them in their beds. They of course barreled into the room this morning and made my attempts to sleep in futile. Last night after more repetitive movie watching (we saw “Mirror Mirror” again) the girls went to sleep. K and I spent the rest of our anniversary watching television.

With the exception of a few tantrums here and there, the girls have been good. I’m of the impression that Anna knows that K and I plan to marry while Margaret is oblivious. She keeps doing the whole “I’m watching you” thing from the Focker movies. I have been combing their hair and assisting in parenting. The more I do so the more I begin to see the type of parent I might have been had I had children. I’m definitely the stricter type. The girls can be a little wild and although I give them some leeway, I’m the first to tell them to behave. Continue reading “The Training Goes on” →