At Family Dinner on Monday I recounted my cleaning the loft exploits to my family, rattling off the treasure trove of old ticket stubs I discovered in a pencil box. “Pearl Jam, R.E.M, Warped Tour,”…
Date Archives May 2014
Tootsie Pop Flavors: A Definitive Ranking
Sister #2 goes through food phases where she can’t get enough of certain food and she eats it all the time. A few weeks ago it was Chicago mix popcorn. One spring it was Nerds…
Yes, Even Me
My mind is full. The messages are contradictory. I need to write today and I haven’t yet. When I get around to it, my main character Cora will buckle under the weight of responsibility. I…
Becoming Yourself
When I discovered it was Memorial Day weekend on Wednesday, I vowed to spend a portion of the weekend cleaning Supergenius HQ. Clearly, I had no plans for the weekend and while that made me…
Potential Memoir Titles Based on Today’s Activities: A List
The Week of Magically Getting Up at 6:30 a.m. Every Damn Day Like Some Kind of Fool How I wrote & deleted the same sentence 6 times then decided to vacuum the stairs and now…
Of Course it Doesn’t Suck
I recently confessed on Book Riot, that I might be the slightest bit irrational when it comes to the books of Elizabeth McCracken. I discovered Elizabeth McCracken in the mid-nineties about the same time I…