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I'm a bicycling poet who lived in Parker for several years and worked at YourHub.com, covering Parker and Franktown for two years.

I am studying poetry at CSU in the Master of Fine Arts program ...

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Thanks for the read: My year in review

Contributed by: Tabitha Dial, YourHub.com   on 12/8/2006

Editor's note: This blog was inspired by Brendan's blog, which was inspired by Karin Malchow's blog. If you don't have a blog, registerat YourHub.com and get started. Please contact me at dialt@yourhub.com or 303-954-2362 if you'd like some help and inspiration.

Somewhere in the first sixty days of 2006, I got a birthday plant from YourHub.com managing editor, Fairlight. The plant's name is Dot and its offspring, which now towers over Dot at about eleven inches, is named Speck.

In March, I went skiing for the first time and I also had my first palm reading.

In April, I tried hitting a few golf balls with my father.

May brought me back to my love of oil painting and I also created a Viking cow.

June was huge for me! I saw Body Worlds 2 and moved in to my first apartment with Alex (where Dot and Speck happily reside) and had a little bike lock troublewhich proved to be user error.

In July, I contemplated trading my jeep for a book deal. Surprisingly, no agents or publishers have called. I started using my blog as a vehicle (of sorts)for revising my fiction manuscript any way and I painted more and visited the new Tattered Cover to witness a poetry reading (I'm a poet moreso than I am a fiction novelist). Alex and I also began a lot of traveling by camping at Blue Mesa Reservoir.

August took me to Germany and my friend/fellow poet Steve's mountain home in Colorado and Alex and I participated in the Moonlight Classic.

Alex and I spent our Labor Day weekend in Chicago, Chicago!

In October, I created post cards using oil paints and all but one of them have been sent and received. I also posted my first poem to YourHub.com after YourHub.com blogger Rob Guthrie requested I do so. Alex and I celebrated by taking a vacation in Hawaii.

I went to a slam poetry workshopand an evening with Denver Poet Laureate Chris Ransick before enjoying the new light rail line and sharing a new approach to poetry in November.

This month, I've been busy adoring live Christmas trees, seeing Santa (No, I didn't travel to the North Pole. Hawaii was the last trip I took), remembering my holiday drawing from 2005 and learning how an an internationally-known artist is raising money for Parker. And I'm only one week in to December!

2006 by the hour:

Time spent traveling to or from a destination that isn't work or home? I'm assuming 100 hours.

Time spent reading, writing or workshopping poetry? I'm guessing 380-plus hours.

Time spent on YourHub.com? Priceless.

Post your year in reviewor create a blogso you can share the highlights twelve months from now.


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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 12/10/2006 @ 8:01:05 AM
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You know his kidneys? Bill -- Wow! Another post about him was made, and the word internationally ended up being "internally", too. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Submitted By: Bill Boucher
posted on 12/9/2006 @ 10:11:11 PM
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The artist from Parker is great. I know his kidneys. Tab - I was bagging on the "internally" known artist line. I know I'm an a-hole, but at least I'm a self-aware a-hole.
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Submitted By: Meagan Savage
posted on 12/9/2006 @ 7:41:57 AM
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Man, I wish I knew somebody's kidneys... sounds like a good story to tell at parties.
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Tabitha Dial

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Tabitha Dial has posted 194 blog entries and 816 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Tabitha Dial's average blog rating is 4.96.
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