Today's list of stuff to do: shovel snow, check proofs of the giant poem that's coming out in Beloit, lament over my broken snowshoe, figure out how to make a vegetable broth for soba noodles, pick up kids after play practice, learn some fiddle licks to go with (1) "Ain't Misbehavin" and (2) "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," try to get readers and teachers to think about the faint possibility of considering the idea of buying and/or reviewing my anthology [sigh], transcribe more bizarre and distressing commentary from the 1859 blow-by-blow newspaper article "Trial of the Negroes for the Murder of W. Sealy Zimmerman," think about Mennonites, make my kid fold his laundry, make my husband stop telling my kid to stop repetitively singing the same Canadian folk song about the doomed Franklin expedition ("and, honey, you need to also quit trying to drown him out with Yo la Tengo"), grapple with the irritations of social networking, prepare the barn animals for another round of intense cold, shovel snow, read Mr. Bridge, think about Andrew Carnegie, haul firewood, apply for jobs, buy more toothpaste, let the dog in, let the dog out, let the dog in, drink tea, remember to eat lunch, sit in the yellow chair, write, second-guess myself, write, second-guess myself, shovel snow, let the dog in, read Mr. Bridge, think about the murder of W. Sealy Zimmerman, think about murder, think about the witnesses who weren't witnesses but imagined what it might have been like to be witnesses, think about the confusions of fear and memory and assumptions and anger, let the dog out, write, sit in the yellow chair, remember that I still haven't figured out how to make that vegetable broth for soba noodles.