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National Mom’s Nite Out in San Diego (UPDATED!)

So Mel and I are coordinating a national Mom’s Nite Out here in San Diego on Thursday, May 7 and it’s going to be so cool, you won’t believe it. There will be coolness and hawtness and more coolness and super awesomeness and all that and now we just need to find out who is…Continue Reading

Harbinger

Does anyone know what Elijah did when he left Babylon? Because again I randomly smiled at some moonbar in Starbucks this morning, and got an Elijah reference in return. What happened was I’m just sitting there, being my friendly and tolerant self, which I must stop immediately, and after spotting a wild Buffalo Bill…Continue Reading

Dust Clouds

We loved dive bars, the old geezers, dollar drafts, gummy pool tables. Most weekends, we’d visit somewhere else, the earlier, the better, and make new best friends with the characters who peppered the naugahyde. There should’ve been plaques above each seat with the names, bronzed and indelible. Because nothing much changed from bar to bar.…Continue Reading

PROMPTuesday #51: Gonna be Startin’ Something

This week, I wanted to return to the first line prompt, because I’m feeling all fictiony and sublime and I have no idea what that means, so ignore me. Still here? Oh good! I love you people. Here’s PROMPTuesday #51: Please finish the story begun with these sentences: She lifted the…Continue Reading

You Made Me Love You

Spring does this to me every time. I think I hate it — since I much prefer darker days, less blue and more atmospheric fretfulness than Spring cheerfully delivers. Actually, Autumn is my season — the Autumns of butternut squash, soups and breads and books taken to read before the fire. Spring? Bleh. Too…Continue Reading

You Probably Won’t Like Me Anymore After This

The other night I lay in bed quite unable to sleep. Nothing was wrong, as it usually is when I wake up in the middle of the night, no racing heart or sweaty boobs, I just couldn’t sustain drowsiness and so awoke at one a.m. open-eyed and bushy-tailed. And then I did what I always…Continue Reading

PROMPTuesday #50: A Life in Six Words

Because I’m late today, I kept it easyish. This one comes from my friend, Paul, with whom I’ll be attending a weekly writing coach meeting, but that’s neither here nor there*. Paul’s idea is to riff on the popular six-word memoir idea captured eloquently in this book here. So just like it’s asked…Continue Reading

It’s On Its Way!

I’ll have PROMPTuesday up tomorrow morning. This evening, a complicated algorithm involving tart frozen yogurt destroyed by Agave Nectar (next time use plain honey) topping, an illegal smiley face drawn on an orange ottoman and dark shadows moving about my sinister bedroom last night, lowered my energy level enough to preclude an early PROMPT posting.…Continue Reading

Different Worlds

Me: The car is running a little funny. Him: How do you mean? Me: It sounds corroded. Him: Like how? Me: Like it’s riding rough and uneven and weird. Also, it doesn’t start right up in the morning. Him: Well those are two separate issues. One could be the battery,…Continue Reading