P.A. Moed invites you to join her Literary Feast: Now it’s time for me to invite you to a literary feast, inspired by Ivonne from Cream Puffs in Venice, a fabulous baking website. When? Valentine’s Day. What are we going to eat? That’s up to you. Send me your literary tidbit via email or send me the link to your entry posted on your … Read More A Literary Feast
He’s making a movie about the US health care industry and would like you to send him your health care horror stories: Have you ever found yourself getting ready to file for bankruptcy because you can’t pay your kid’s hospital bill, and then you say to yourself, “Boy, I sure would like to be in Michael Moore’s health care movie!”? Or, after being turned … Read More Michael Moore Wants You!
I am a lover of seafood and it’s likely that some of what I buy is from Canada, but still I have signed this petition and I would urge you to as well, my friends–Protect Seals: Make Canada’s Fishing Industry Pay the PriceEven though most Canadians oppose the commercial seal hunt, their government and seafood industry continue to support the slaughter. The ProtectSeals campaign … Read More
Thanks to a reminder from my pal Kat, I am posting a link to the Million Writers Award for Fiction–nonminations begin on February 15th, with the notables being released on March 15th, and the top ten on April 1. Here are the RULES (which I suppose are the same this year except the new dates are reflected above). Basically, you can nominate any story … Read More The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction
All I have to say is this–the word is pronounced NU-CLEE-AR not NUKE-CUE-LER. Is there no one who can teach him the difference? Condi? Dick? C’mon! You two know the difference. I’m sure of it.
I sure as fuck am! So what better to counter the sour taste in your readerly mouth than to pick up the latest issue of The Missouri Review and read the first thing in it–a luminous, brilliant, and heartbreaking essay about a sister, her brother, and his sad addiction. It’s called “Imagination and Grace” and it’s written by Wendy Wacker and it will turn … Read More Fried on Frey?
Phew! I’m glad I’m not the only one–Crashing the Pool Party: Why Adult Women Watch Teen TV: Like teenagers all over the country, I spent a recent Monday night planted in front of the television for a three-hour Laguna Beach-Ashlee Simpson-Miss Seventeen marathon. I’m not sure which was worse: the acute, gut-wrenching jealousy I experienced looking at seventeen-year-olds with better bodies than I’ve ever … Read More
The weather in New England leaves a lot to be desired lately, but no weather could compare with this dismal news–Senate confirms Alito to Supreme Court: The Senate confirmed Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a day after an attempt by some Democratic senators to block his nomination fizzled. On the upside, Brokeback Mountain got EIGHT Oscar nominations–and as far as … Read More Oh, Dark, Oh, Gloomy Day!
Today I am thinking of the wide expanses and jagged mountain ranges of Wyoming. In 2001, Allen and I spent some time along the Wind River in Dubois, traveling in and out of the Tetons and Yellowstone. I am thinking of the day we spent driving across Wyoming from South Dakota. Hot, hot day on a two lane road, straight through the grasslands, stopping … Read More Brokeback Mountain
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