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 [...]
Film at eleven…or not
by Shannon on February 28, 2009 in General
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
by Shannon on February 27, 2009 in General
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
by Shannon on February 26, 2009 in General
“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
by Shannon on February 25, 2009 in Cats, kids or the dog
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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