I’ve seen the future and it looks like Ray Bradbury. The books are gone. It happened slowly I guess, but I wasn’t watching, at least not close enough. Then Saturday night, out for my usual romping good time in the bookstore after dark, I walked into a Borders. Signs were plastered all over the windows withContinue reading “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
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Once More, with Feeling
Fall is here and sorry for this god-awful pun but I am determined to turn over a new leaf. I have a new work schedule that gives me a day off in the middle of the week. I have a shiny tiny Netbook (thanks Sweetie!) light enough to throw in my purse and take to coffeeContinue reading “Once More, with Feeling”
Summer Lite or Summer Lit?
I may have said this before but I’m somewhat of a reading snob. I feel bad about it but I can’t help it. I huffed and puffed my way through The Da Vinci Code, I practically spit nails reading the first Twilight novel, Maeve Binchy (bless her soul) puts me to sleep, and I wouldn’tContinue reading “Summer Lite or Summer Lit?”
I’m Melting
August. I am seven, eating popsicles with my brother and my cousin RoseAnn. She is a year older than me, skinny and knock-kneed with dark hair wisping out in all directions. At eight she already knows more than I’ll know at fifteen. Her eyes are narrow, hiding things, calculating, shifting. Mine are wide open inContinue reading “I’m Melting”
Still Here
I suppose for once I have a legitimate excuse for abandoning this blog. I was watching my mother die. About a week before my last blog entry my mom was diagnosed with cancer. It was unclear at the time just what kind it was because they could not identify the source. I went to stay withContinue reading “Still Here”
Digital Aging
When I first started to write I bought a copy of Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. I found it on a shelf with other writing books during one of my many excursions to Harvard Square. This was when bookstores used to stay open half the night and there was no Starbucks or Seattle’s Best and insteadContinue reading “Digital Aging”
Keeping the Demons at Bay
Bless me Father for I have sinned. It’s been too damn long since my last blog. Anyone who may have been reading this nonsense has surely moved on to bigger and better things–the latest American Idol elimination, dusting the Hummels, replacing the batteries in your smoke detectors, the official opening of trout season, taking aContinue reading “Keeping the Demons at Bay”
You can’t teach an old dog
I changed jobs last September and had to turn in my company cell phone. Since then I went without one–it seemed like an added expense I just didn’t need. Can I tell you how many people were shocked by this? You don’t have a cell phone? was all I heard, like I didn’t have indoorContinue reading “You can’t teach an old dog”
Muse Cruise
So let’s say there really are 9 of them. They get us to the computer or the spiral notebook or the back of the napkin. Words come out of us, sentences form and something clicks. We are in the writing zone. Sometimes paragraphs seem to come out full-blown like Athena bursting forth from the forehead of Zeus.Continue reading “Muse Cruise”
Book Squirm
You have to be a reader to be a writer. Common sense tells us so, as well as every instructor in those week-long $800 writing workshop. I am most definitely a reader, but I also have slumps. Not as bad as the writers block but definite slumps. And these tend to occur when I’m reading aContinue reading “Book Squirm”
In the Chair 