*Adventure might be a bit of hyperbole. Maybe. When you never leave your house and a majority of your conversations happen with people in your head and/or cat the bar for adventure is super duper…
Date Archives November 2014
How to Build a Not Quite Successful Novel About a Girl
Up until my friend Kurtis read a NY Times review of How to Build a Girl, I had successfully avoided the work of Caitlin Moran. I’d heard a lot of buzz about her book How…
Slumber Party Confessions: Music For Getting it On
My FFJ is going through a nasty bit of rough and thus needed to spend some quality time with a bottle of wine, a pack of cigarettes, me, and some Potato Oles. I’m not gonna…
The Great Celery Discovery
“This is like your childhood’s greatest hits, isn’t it?” I asked Sister #3 as she gleefully dove fork first into last night’s Family Dinner. She grinned at me around a mouthful of something my mom…
Wolf in White WTF?
I’ve spent the entire morning reading review after review of John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van, the debut novel from The Mountain Goats’ singer that was long-listed for the National Book Award. After reading each…
Into the MP3 Deeps: Lucinda + Lydia + Liz = Longing
One of the best things about being a writer who listens to music when they write is you get to spend a lot of time thinking about and then listening to your very favorite songs…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Am I Too Blue For You Edition
Yesterday morning I finished V3 of The Beast & immediately sent it off to Christa. I would have sent it to The Black Sheep too, but we’re meeting on Wednesday and already have some 250…
More Bitter Than Sweet
It is only now as I type that I realize I read two books back-to-back with the word ‘sweet’ in the title. Happy accident. I was attracted to Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore because it had…
Things I Discussed with the Cub Cashier & a Picture of My Cat
The first four items were discussed with the Cub Cashier as well as the ol’ hippie lady who checked ou right before I did. Whether or not I got new glasses (yes, I did. They’re…
Grandma’s House
Did I mention in all my Portland bellyaching that my mom and dad moved into Sister #2’s house? They did! Tonight was our first Family Dinner sans the 3/4ths of the Portlander’s (my brother-in-law Ben…