Return from Hiatus

For those of you haven’t noticed, I’ve been quite absent from this blog for the past three months or so. Now that the holidays are over and a new year has commenced, I am glad to say that I will recommence regularly posting to this blog. Here is a preview of projects that I will be working on in the coming weeks:

• An original translation of Candide by Voltaire: a wonderful picaresque satire lampooning Leibnizian optimalism. The French prose isn’t particularly difficult, but it is certainly worth practicing.

• More original poetry: I took a break from writing poetry—by circumstance, not by choice—and I must continue to improve and to expand my horizons.

• The Anthology continues: I also need to continue developing my anthology of poems I find inspirational, meaningful, and thought-provoking. Since I am constrained by copyright for publishing some poems here, I will likely stick to classics. This is not to say poetry published in recently won’t show up in my personal anthology; it just won’t show up here.

Of course, I may also begin posting actual blog posts in the near distant future, but I truly have more fun waxing poetic than arguing polemic.

The Grass is Always Greener

Hello, world! A star is born!

At least that’s what I’ll continue telling myself as I add more content to this blog. My first serious foray into the blogosphere, The Grass is Always Greener—so named in honor of my Op Ed column that ran in my high school’s newspaper, The Chronicle, in my tenure as editor—is my attempt to continue writing after four years as an undergraduate St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.

This blog is ultimately a vain attempt to hone my academic skills in writing, poetry, and translation.

Now, with Bachelor’s Degree in tow, I am braving the world of college admissions at my alma mater and, y’know, selling out to the Man. This blog is ultimately a vain attempt to hone my academic skills in writing, poetry, and translation. I hope this will combat the crushing ennui of an entry-level desk job.

For those of you who haven’t noticed (or who don’t quite know me yet), yes, the title of this blog is a pun on my last name—Pendergrass. While I won’t explicitly claim to know anything about grass (except for maybe a croquet court), nor do I have an overabundance of optimism about sod in other regions, I do think that the title is expressive of one thing: me… because my name’s in it.

Without further ado, I present to you my thoughts, my work, and myself.

Well, once I write something, that is.