We interrupt finishing the novel to bring you this slightly weird post. If weird posts offend you, stop reading now. Yesterday morning as I was getting ready for the day I had thoughts that were directly related to the putting on of make-up. Now, this may sound like a bit of a stretch to you […]
We're getting a new roof put on. Not only that, our old roof leaked, so there's some damage that needs to be repaired in the house itself. This means I currently have two work crews at my house. At the moment, the sounds are: pounding, the screech of a wood truss being ripped from the […]
I'm a journal and notebook junkie.
I carry around a journal with me wherever I go, and over the years I've been through many a different kind of journal. But lately, I have discovered Moleskines, and I am in love.
Sitting in the garden at the Pasadena coffee shop called Zephyr, I whiled away a few good hours talking with my screenwriting friend Brian. We discussed the movie biz and the publishing world while a gentle breeze rustled the ivy covering the patio walls and handsome Armenians smoked hookahs at a table nearby. Russian literature […]
Having some difficulty creating full, true-to-life fictional characters? Why not let Marcel help you? Yes, that Marcel, the most famous one of all–Marcel Proust, author of Remembrance of Things Past, the only part of which I remember is when he waxed poetic about Madeleines, the shell-shaped, mini-cakes that melt in your mouth. Thanks to the […]
I'm a junkie for writing books. The good ones get me so excited about writing that I have a hard time finishing them because I put them down to go write (sort of like what I hope this blog does for people). And even the bad ones generally offer some tidbit or another. So when […]
My daughter is grown and gone, married now and thinking about having kids of her own (if the stupid army would ever let her husband come home). But sometimes often she comes to the house to do her laundry. Which is why, last week, I ended up down the basement folding a large load of […]
It rained yesterday. A lot. I drove home from a meeting on the freeway last night and waves of water splashed over the windshield, just like in winter. But I didn't mind. All day yesterday I waited for the rain to come in. It was hot and muggy in the morning, but there were hopeful […]
I'm totally inspired by Carol Schillios. She's a friend of a friend, who I'm hoping to get to meet later on this summer. Carol runs Fabric for Life, a microcredit enterprise which gets young women who have been reduced to begging on the streets (or worse) and teaches them to create items such as fabric […]
I've been a bit distracted lately, which has caused me to Not Write. First of all, it is hot. Not like 90-degree hot. Oh, no, that's not good enough for us. We are suffering through 106+ weather, which is hot, hot, hot. It is so hot that we poor Portlanders don't know what to do […]
