and here is the ten day forecast: Heavy Rain 50°/45° Showers 54°/47° T-Showers 62°/48° Showers 69°/48° Few Showers 72°/50° Showers 66°/45° Few Showers 66°/47° Showers 61°/45° Scattered Showers 67°/47° Partly Cloudy 69°/49° the good news: we are no longer in danger of a drought or brush fires the bad news: a) the exterior painting on our house was supposed to begin tomorrow b) my … Read More It has been raining since Tuesday…
As a Mother’s Day treat, I give you Al Gore on SNL:
Have been dying to see The Squid and the Whale and it was finally available at the library. It totally lived up to and even surpassed expectations. It was funny, honest, poignant, heartbreaking, and humane. Set twenty years ago, there is much of it that remains relevant today. It’s about broken families, desire, competition (and what one is willing to do to win/succeed), betrayal, … Read More Are you a philistine?
Read a travel article this morning about visitng Hay-on-Wye during the off-season. I love traveling in the off-season, fewer people and, in my opinion, too many people buzzing around can really spoil a trip. I’m ashamed to say I’ve not yet been to Wales, though it is top of my list of desired places to visit. When you have a name like mine, you … Read More Hay-on-Wye
Often I hear monks chanting and then realize that I am actually hearing chain saws, dirt bikes, or leaf blowers. It’s easy to pretend otherwise. I close my eyes and see Tibetan monks in saffron robes, walking along the path in the woods, carrying something precious, chanting. It’s misty. The light, blue through the haze. They are welcoming the new season. It is not, … Read More Pink Lady Slippers
This is the most excellent, excellent news and I’ve been sitting on my hands waiting for Pia Ehrhardt to announce her news–as she has done–Oh, happy day!: MacAdam/Cage will publish my short story collection – FAMOUS FATHERS – in Spring 2007, and my novel – SPEEDING IN THE DRIVEWAY – in Spring 2008. Since I was eight or nine years old, I’ve kept kept … Read More Pia Ehrhardt ‘s book deal!
She’s interviewed all of the writers you wish you could get close to and ask that one important question. She’s interviewed TC Boyle. She’s interviewed Aimee Bender. And each person she’s interviewed, she’s done so with great finesse. And now, thanks to Sue Henderson, Jordan Rosenfeld interviews Jordan Rosenfeld.
Hey, this is cool. BEA is offering podcasts this year: With these free podcasts you will be able to hear publishing leaders discuss how new Internet tools are changing the book business. You will hear “Upfront & Unscripted” — intimate one-on-one interviews with publishing, Web and marketing gurus. You will hear from your favorite authors and speakers. And, our roving pod-reporter will find out … Read More BookExpoCast.com
Here is a new blog run by some folks I know–The Canadian Writers Collective. Good stuff, eh?
When I read this post The Madness Continues on MoorishGirl yesterday, I was chilled right to my core. Then I read Patricia Zohn’s series on a soldier returning home–Part I, Part II (there will be two more parts) and I got even more depressed: But RJ says, “A lot of things they preach over there were stupid to me: these weren’t my friends or … Read More 31%
This is a fascinating article–Electronic smog: Perhaps strangest of all, there is increasing evidence that the smog causes some people to become allergic to electricity, leading to nausea, pain, dizziness, depression and difficulties in sleeping and concentrating when they use electrical appliances or go near mobile phone masts. Some are so badly affected that they have to change their lifestyles. While not yet certain … Read More Allergic to Electricity?
Got my copy of AGNI 63 in the mail on Friday and went immediately to the Editor’s Note, this time entitled Finding Traction. Sven Birkerts always has something interesting to say in his essays and this one was no exception. In fact, I would consider it a must read for those folks out there who are writing and hoping for publication: Keep in mind … Read More "Writing communicates its essential nature from the threshold"
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