Last year, I coordinated a series of postal mailings that allowed and rewarded social distancing while also supporting the use of the USPS. We called in Dearest Confinement Friends, because that’s what we were and are, many of us sending letters to friends that we just hadn’t met yet in person. Then came the annual […]
I have been heads down in the penultimate semester of my doctoral studies — well, maybe it’s the penultimate semester but more on that in a bit. I did a few things that are kind of counter-intuitive, and if you know me, probably kind of self-damaging. First, for creative writing dissertations, the generally approved plan […]
Friday, November 13, 2015
Hello! How are you? Is that a new haircut? Damned you are looking good! Somehow it’s fall. I’m not sure how that happened – the last several months have gone by incredibly quickly and now we’ve got a limited number of weekends before everything kind of shuts down for the winter. Please indulge me […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
So, I’ve been working on this project. A writing project. Ever since I went to Writer Camp, I’ve been little Pollyanna with keeping my internal demons at bay and have trucked through 18K words of new fiction in two months. Ok, I know Nanowrimo people poop that out before lunch, but for me, that’s […]
Oh you guys, Writer Camp was so awesome. I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome it was. Everyone was awesome. Awesome. It’s an overused word, but I mean it in the truest sense: I am full of awe. Every day, I took a tiny little cranky elevator down to the Writer Camp headquarters […]
I got home from what had to have been the worst West Coast flight of my life: for some reason, the pitch of the seats on this particular Delta plane seemed really really shorter than usual. Like, there was more legroom on the tiny puddle jumper jet from MSP to GRB than the big plane […]
First, thank you to everyone who left a comment on my Etsy giveaway! It didn’t matter if you left a complimentary one or not, you were still entered in the contest, but many of you did say very nice things! That was so nice! Thank you! First of all, if you are anxiously awaiting this […]
I have lost some weight. Not a lot of weight, certainly not bucket loads of weight like my friend Anne, who writes the incredible Body of Work diary that’s part of the new Elastic Waist thingy (which, by the way, is where I’m updating three times a day Monday through Friday like clockwork, although sometimes […]
