Early tomorrow morning, I'm heading for New York City. Five plus days in the Big Apple, fun times! Here's the drill: Who'll I'll see 1. My sister, my traveling companion. 2. My niece, student at Tisch NYU, the reason for our visit. 3. My nephew (from a different sister) who I've not seen in years. […]
I'm in the Denver airport and I've been thinking about the post I wrote yesterday about traveling, a writer's travels to be exact. In retrospect, I realized I wanted to write a paragraph about what I missed when I travel, but I didn't. Why? Because I was rushed and had a million things to finish […]
I'm leaving again tomorrow, this time for Nashville. I travel a lot, sometimes a lot lot. The last six months I have traveled a lot lot. In August I was in LA, September in Nashville, October in New Mexico (a real vacation, who knew people did that?), November in LA again and December in Nashville. […]
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 […]
I cannot tell a lie, because you have no doubt noticed, but I am a blogging slacker. Two weeks ago I headed to Nashville for the Writer's Loft fall orientation. This was a big to-do because it was the first actual orientation that my partner Terry and I planned since we took over the program. […]
Yesterday I cleverly wrote a post on my new Centro phone and sent it to be published on Typepad from my backyard. I know this is old news for those of you who have had Blackberries and Iphones for ever, but it is a major step forward for me. I'm on the road to LA […]
This is a test. No, not of the emergency broadcast system, but my phone, to see if I can post directly from it. Since I’m hitting the road on Tuesday, I thought it would be cool to figure out. The last test failed, here goes this one. Update: It worked! I sent the previous paragraph […]
where it is illegal to look different from anyone else. It is a requirement here that you be thin, tan, have long hair, wear sunglasses and pout, AND be young. Thus if you are not young it is required that you go get plastic surgery really, really fast. And then you look like you are […]
I flew down to LA on Friday and at the moment I'm staying in Pasadena. It is probably in the mid to high 90s at the moment, but yesterday and Friday, the temps were around 106-107. Gee-zus. This is way too hot for an Oregon native like me, especially given that we've not had much […]
I’m heading back to Portland this afternoon, and I am, as always, sorry to leave Nashville. I am not, however, sorry to leave the weather behind. Yesterday there were tornado warnings which were relayed to me through a sort of old-fashioned round robin system. Friends of Sue and Walt’s who live up the street called […]
