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Genre Queen
It could, of course, be Genre King. I am not an ambitious woman. Well, not any longer. It is true that, at one time, I wanted to be either the pope or the president, career paths I am clearly...
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Beds! Beds! Beds!
Some Bed Yesterday, I bought three beds. I know. That’s a shitload of beds. Maybe I shouldn’t have had so much coffee and increased my dose of antidepressants. Still, talk about good deals. I...
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Things I Didn’t Predict That Everybody Else Did
In my defense, I was not very old. I didn’t see anything coming.
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Should You Go to Law School?
Bonus points if you can guess who this is My answer: probably not. Here’s the e-mail I just sent to a kid who asked me for advice about whether he should apply to law school. Dear Young Wanna-Be...
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2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
As predictors go, Albert Brooks is a lot more convincing than that guy who told us the world was going to end last week. Basically, Brooks predicts in 2030, a dystopian novel that came out a week or so...
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My Inner Cranky
This is one of my kids -- but he totally inherited that expression from me I honestly don’t think I’ve ever, ever posted two things in one day (really, posting twice in three months has been more my...
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Talking at Cross-Purposes: Dialogue
watching you The other day when I was writing about Albert Brooks’ new book, 2030, and talking about how I thought the dialogue was not so great, I briefly considered giving some examples. And then I...
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Gone for a While (June 14 to be exact)
I promise not to fall in or otherwise embarrass myself After my recent, exhausting spate of blog posting, I’m confining my online presence until mid-June to checking our bank account to make sure I...
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Back
Here are some things that happened while I was gone: 1. When you don’t write in your blog, but you keep your feedreader open, you have a lot more time to listen to what other people have to say. 2....
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The BlogLily Summer Reading Program
Although this looks suspiciously like a wooden worm, it is actually a boomerang. I love everything about library summer reading programs, but the thing I love the most is the swag: the little sheet...
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Summer Reading: Prototype
number of staples removed while making this Prototype: 9 Here is what I learned when I made the BlogLily Summer Reading Program Booklet Prototype. 1. I will have to call the finished reading program...
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ChicFic
chicfic is the new ladylit Here is my first BlogLily Summer Reading Program report. Haha. I am ahead of everyone else because I have the prototype program booklet thing in my hands. (Yours goes out...
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French Lessons: Champagne All Around
A few years ago, I did a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. It was magical, that place. They had a room full of beach cruisers for us to ride — and the ocean wasn’t...
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The Untailored Spy
I adore George Smiley. You probably do too, because you probably have already read all the John leCarre books that feature him. Lucky me, I had not, which is why I chose two of them as my BlogLily...
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Finished!
Thrilled. Not as thrilled as William is with his stick, but pretty close. Do you know how you know when your epic, year-long, blog-destroying novel revision is finished? When your agent e-mails you...
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