Debra Davis Hinkle

Pale Blue Moon

Debra — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:18:12 +0000

San Luis Obispo Nightwriters

21st Annual

1-Page Poetry Contest

May, 2010, Finalist

My entry will be printed on the “Awards” page after I enter it in another contest.

Another Blue Moon

Debra — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:04:00 +0000

I got a poem published in The Tribune, Central Coast Living section. It’s National Poetry month and the San Luis Obispo poet laureate choose one of my poems for publication. You should be able to view it here:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/04/12/1100222/the-tribunes-10th-annual-celebration.html

Blue Moon month??

Debra — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:14:10 +0000

I must have been wrong about this being a Blue Moon month because I just won another award. I took second place (creative non-fiction) in the:

San Luis Obispo Nightwriters

20th Annual

500-Word Short Story Contest

and

1-Page Poetry Contest

October, 2009

My entry is printed on the “Awards” page.

Blue Moon Day

Debra — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:35:04 +0000

I won the:

Central Coast Writers’ Conference XXV at Cuesta College

Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, 2^nd Place

October 2009

Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest

Poetry, 3^rd Place

October 2009

My entries are printed on the “Awards” page.

Blue Moon, Again

Debra — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:17:05 +0000

I got a poem published in Women’s Press, July/August 2009 issue:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17039521/20094WPJulAug

It’s a “BLUE MOON!”

Debra — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:15:15 +0000

I wasn’t published, but it’s still a BLUE MOON day–I won the:

Central Coast Writers’ Conference XXIV at Cuesta College

Lillian Dean First Page Writing Contest

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, 3^rd Place

September 2008

My entry is printed on the “Awards” page.

What is a blue moon?

Debra — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:23:08 +0000

Maybe the question should be what a blue moon is to you and me since there seems to be so many definitions of it:

a rare event
an extra full moon that occurs in a season (if a season had four full moons, the third would be the blue moon)
when the moon, not necessarily full, appears bluish
the second of two full moons to occur in the same calendar month (an error from a mistake in an article in the Sky & Telescope magazine, March 1946)

For my website and my way of thinking, I’m going to go with that whenever I get published, IT’S A BLUE MOON.

While researching a “blue moon”, I came upon: Black, Wet, Full, New, Half, Rising Crescent, Gibbous, Harvest, Lunar, Blood (aka Hunter’s) and Fairy Moons.

What I was starting to get was a headache and then I started to wonder what a “Migraine Moon” would be? Here are “my” many definitions for the term:

building a new BLOG/Website combo
entering a writer’s contest
still recuperating from SCBWI Conferene
only nine hours sleep in the last two days

I’m going to do the same thing here. For my website, when I am having a difficult time or struggling, I will refer to it as a MIGRAINE MOON.

For all other times, either the moon is waxing, waning or full. Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to see the little cresent with the reflection behind it.

Debra Davis Hinkle

Migraine Moon Day

p.s. I will do most of my posting on the main BLOG. I probably will only post here when I have something personal to say!