So do you love the clip-on tie clipped to a t-shirt? No way was I busting out the dress shirt. Bad enough I had to dust the shoulders of his suitcoat. He had to do a news report recapping 1976 as a class project and since he was partnered with…a student with a more fluid [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Film at eleven…or not
I’m one of those writers who see scenes from the book I’m working on as film in my head. I can watch it over and over, tweaking and tinkering, until I get it right, and then it’s a matter of finding the time and the right words with which to write it down. For quite [...]
Feed carnage and maternal visits
I woke up this morning and hacked through my Google Reader subscriptions with a virtual chainsaw. :villain: I went from over two hundred to thirteen. I thought I’d feel some anxiety or some post-carnage regret but…nope. Shortly after that my mom called from Maine and she’s going to pop over for the day. :boogie: One [...]
Male versus female POV
“It Won’t Be Like This For Long” by Darius Rucker. Nice song, but it’s stupendously obvious to me it was written by a man. Why? Here’s the opening: He didn’t have to wake up He’d been up all night Lying there in bed and listening To his newborn baby cry He makes a pot of [...]
A Very Mini Birthday
I told myself I wasn’t going to blog about the dog for at least a week, but today’s her first birthday and I’ve got nothing else, so… This was taken the weekend we brought her home, back in May: While I do miss that Ewok/Wookiee hybrid look, she’s a happier doggy trimmed down, and I’m [...]
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