1. That there is a car chase and shooting a few blocks from your house. Sisters #2 and #3 were shocked and appalled that I had absolutely no idea that such a thing happened until…
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Forty-two drafts and not a thing to say
I’ve spent most of my waking hours the past week or so working. I’m all working working all the time with the working and it makes me boring. No, that’s the not true. I’ve got…
I call it Gravity & other stories
Hours after finishing “Gravity” one of the stories in John Jodzio’s debut story collection If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Already, I met with my writing group. As we talked about what we were…
My new affectation is destroyed by crack
The latest affectation I am trying to adopt is that of avid note taker. I even bought new Field Notes notebooks just for this effort (and you can just hush it about that stack of…
Uneasy state
When Michael Schaub and the Largehearted Boy started raving about Emma Schaub’s Fly-over State on Twitter, it took me roughly 48 seconds to order up the book. That kind of hype cannot be withstood. Besides,…
It keeps me from beating myself up
When she was in high school my best friend Jodi Hanson had a huge crush on Freedom Williams (thirty-two double plus bonus points if you remember him before you read the next sentences). This might…