Aug 30
The following AWESOME THINGS shall be written in CAPITAL LETTERS. 1. JAM. I totally MADE SOME JAM. And it was REALLY CHEAP because the fruit was FREE from MY YARD. We called it “BLAMBERRY”, i.e. plum and blackerry. I baked some SCONES and we had them with butter and the jam. Delish. 2. REAL CHAI. …
Aug 29
I was out working in my garden yesterday, trying to get it semi-tidy before the autumn rains set in. I know it’s still August, but the chilly wind and low-angle sunlight made it feel like fall. (Fall and spring have always been my favorite seasons. Thus me moving out to the Pacific Northwest rather than …
Aug 21
Or, some thoughts on time management. I am thinking about times in my life when I’ve worked my ass off. Times when I’ve been pulling ridiculously long days and (mostly) enjoying it. Most of those times involved one or more of the following: 1. college, 2. a theater production, and/or 3. a writing project with …
Aug 19
Here’s an assignment I gave myself this week: Do at least one thing you fear, or makes you nervous. My successes include: 1. Signing up for classes at the Richard Hugo House. I signed up for a fiction critique class with Nancy Kress (to which I will bring a big ol’ chunk of Novel No. …
Aug 14
Who loves dystopias? Me, clearly, because I wrote one, but still. A good dystopia story is totally cathartic, the ultimate act of schadenfreude. Holy crap. Too many big words. To review: Dystopia: a “negative utopia,” i.e. a supposedly perfect world gone horribly wrooooong. Schadenfreude: A German word meaning “happiness at the misfortune of others.” …Anyway, …
Aug 04
Apparently, it’s Things That Bother Me Week. Well, who am I to say no to the opportunity to complain on the Internet. (Complaint is the purpose of the internet, after all. That and porn.) So. Something that bothers me: Chick Lit. Chick Lit, to me, literature by women for women that probably has some literary …