I am never able to say or think (or type) the words “Open House” without Lou Reed’s song about Andy Warhol playing in my head.
So, we had our first open house yesterday and just four people showed. And I think they were two sets so really just two groups came, not four separate people. As [...]
They say (or at least Richard Carlson said) Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. Well, I know I shouldn’t. But it is the small stuff that gets me. I mean, sometimes it just feels impossible not to feel like I’m being buried alive by small stuff. I won’t get into the guilt thing here about how [...]
A couple of birthdays ago (or perhaps it was Christmases) my sister sent me Robert Arbor’s book Joie De Vivre all about living the French life. I had flipped through it a few times but just the other day decided that I would read it through cover to cover (unless there was meat involved). I [...]
Sometimes I have a memory of something that feels like it happened just a few months ago but when I do the math it will have been two years ago. Or more! Strange how time does pass so quickly and frustrating, too, when I think of all I meant to do. I try not to [...]
I’m so close to completing the first draft of my young adult novel! so close! I know I’ll have to go back and re-work so much, add details, flesh it out, make the characters more, well, characterish–you know, with their own voices and stuff. But right now I’m just happy that I’m doing it.