Don’t buy me jewelry. Nope. It’s very kind of you to think of me, but I’ll just lose it. Quickly. Then not notice I’ve lost it until much later, when I won’t have the first clue where to go looking for it. I had one of those witching hour epiphanies last night in which I…
Yesterday, I received the evaluations from my writer in residence gig, as well as a pile o pages of the writing we produced together. If feedback is good, feedback from human beings ages 5 through 12 rocks! Some highlights: It made me feel like a beater writer. Cim wos fon. (I believe…
Last week for spring break, my sis was in Florida, I was in San Diego. Both of us with husbands, kids and grandparents in tow, both of us performing the full vacation-with-family experimental theatre catastrophe. Naturally, we shared our experiences via text message. Here are some of my favorite lines and photos from the week.…
Gig 1. Thanks, Grass Roots! I dug that. festivaloutaouaisenfete.com/OEFWordpress/ Quarterly meeting of Nestucca Spit Press. Did I mention the stars? Spontaneous and uncontrollable desire to run free on the Oregon beach + persistent impression that I am invincible + plenty ‘o vodka + the dark of night…
My sister captures my entire marriage in one shot.
The sad thing is, I’ve had it for 15 years and nothing has changed.
Old crusty guy approaches me in a bar. “Mind if I sit down?” I agree. He pulls up a stool, creakily climbs aboard. Small talk ensues. “How long have you lived in Newport?” I ask. “Well, 15 years,” old crusty guy replies. “But the first seven years I was a wino. I wasn’t really…
This is what Captain Daddy brought home from his deer hunting trip over the weekend. A far cry from what he normally delivers to my kitchen during October, which looks like this… …and turns my house into a butcher shop/early-Halloween house of horrors/biohazard. big loans Curious. Have the blacktail deer been finding midlife strangely…
Mom, where are you going tonight? To a restaurant downtown. That’s boring. Where do you think I should go, Boo? London. Mom, I told you, we have to a-gree, not un-gree. Mom, I love you. I love you to the lamp, and then to space, and then back to the floor. But I…
“All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.” –Raymond Hull “One study found that simply having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework a week.” –Newsweek, “I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage.” June 21, 2010. Overheard at a 50th wedding anniversary party. A guest: “How did you…