Chapter 238…
…in which our heroine is nearly finished with final edits on her book. In between fits of terror, she is quite jublilant. Honestly, she is. (Well, she’s sure it’s coming, anyway.) Up next: online direct payday loan lenders
Riches
Tax season mournful thought for the day: “No one can stop you from writing. They can only stop you from getting paid for it.” –Bobby Moresco, Hawaii Writer’s Conference, 2009 Silver lining: writing off this.
Try Die
It has been said that all fear is fear of death. I’ve managed to get my head around the fact that all negative emotions are fear. Envy is fear. Anger is fear. Anxiety is fear. But I hadn’t gotten my head around all fear being fear of death until I came to live with a…
Interesting Things That Have Happened Recently
BOUTIQUEHOTELSCROATIA.NET/BCROATIA/WS/ A postcard I sent to my parents from New York City to Oregon in October, 2008, turned up in their mailbox. (Where it has been in the interim might make an excellent plot for a novel. Or not.) My husband presented me with a tube of bacon chapstick. (Note to the manufacturer—An appealing food…
Rockin' the Bard
Of particular interest to anyone who has ever made-out in the back of a school bus…or wished they had… An essay from my upcoming book, Chance of Sun: A Perfectly Imperfect Oregon Upbringing, is in this month’s Oregon Quarterly Magazine. Rockin’ the Bard when the ftc comes
Happy New You! Part IV
The chickens turned three and five last week. I am still not sure how we all got here, let alone in one piece. But I suppose every parent feels that way. At the park over the weekend, a father, while pushing his 20-month-old son in the swing, asked, “How old are your girls?” After my…