*Adventure might be a bit of hyperbole. Maybe. When you never leave your house and a majority of your conversations…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Grandma’s House
Did I mention in all my Portland bellyaching that my mom and dad moved into Sister #2’s house? They did!…