Happy Mother”s Day to all you super mamas! This card came from my own superhero mother. She”s awesome. Since Captain Daddy is working today, I”ll be performing all stunts myself. Now–faster than two small children high on maple syrup! More powerful than a mile-high pile of useless plastic toys! Able to tranform a disaster area into…
Today is the seventh anniversary of the birth and death of my first child. There was a time when I thought it would get easier each year. Now I think, it doesn’t. First comes a frantic stemming of the tide. But it comes anyway—a massive tidal wave of grief. I cry for days. I mean,…
When I was a kid, I thought that all of the bands were actually at the radio station, playing live music that was then somehow funneled into our living room hi-fi. It seemed rather complicated—difficult logistically. I couldn’t quite figure out how they switched to a new band between songs so quickly. Multiple studios? And…
Last weekend I encountered a mom who was having a bad day at the festival. We were in line for face painting, and her daughter wanted to be a tiger. She was fretting. “I’ve been trying to talk her out of it for the last half-hour,” she confided. “I said, wouldn’t you rather be a…
On Monday, I walked to a meeting. The route was a stretch of Nye Beach in Newport, Oregon. The destination was a local pub. The person I was meeting was my publisher. On my back, I carried 160 pages of paper—my book manuscript, completed last week and fresh from the printer. The sun shone brilliantly,…
Anyone heard of angel cards? They are a product of the woo-woo culture, a novelty I’ve kept by my bedside since college (which was a long time ago, btw). Like a deck of cards, you draw one to take as your daily inspiration. They each read one word—Strength, Healing, Purpose etc. I don’t pay the…
…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
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.
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…
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…