Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Apparently Frozen Website & Miss Clavel

It does look as if this website has been frozen at a particular moment in time, doesn’t it?   As if it’s an archeological remnant from a year ago?  It was a cold winter, but we should have thawed out by now!  
Funny story… our webmaster was working on his engineering degree (which he now has—mazel tov—and a full-time job, very good news, many congratulations to him.)  And he’s a great guy, so when we asked him to make the changes to the website, such as posting information about the contest judge, he said he would.  He would get to it.  Sure, he’d do it. 

Haven’t you done something like that?  I do.  I'm guessing that most of us have more work on our to-do list than we can get to right away, and even when we tell ourselves, we must do this first thing tomorrow, something else always inserts itself into that time.  This summer, I’ve been feeling more and more like Miss Clavel in the Madeline books, sitting up in the middle of the night and saying, “something is not right!”  But the moment I start working on fixing it, the doorbell rings, all the kids in the neighborhood come over, and suddenly I’m making lunch.  Where did the morning go?  Where did the month go, or the summer?

The good news is that we are indeed working on the magazine, which is very much alive—all is right in that regard.  Our Spring/Summer issue should be arriving on campus next week, and we will send it out as soon as it does.  We should have a new webmaster once the Fall semester begins.  We are already working on the Fall/Winter issue.  If you are sending us poems or stories or essays electronically, I would like to ask you to submit work via Submittable, not by the regular email address—it is too hard to keep track of mail that comes in that way. 

And thank you for your patience!


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