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N to the O to the T to the… Aw, Forget It.
I’ve got nothing, absolutely nothing today. No ideas, no pending posts, no creativity, no-thing. I pure and simple cannot come up with a topic, or a rant, or a commiseration, a story, a lament, a dirge, a whine (my specialty), a joke, a ramble, NOTHING. NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING! Like, did you ever see that…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #17: Get Specific
Today’s PROMPTuesday is lifted from Naomi Epel’s The Observation Deck, and is sponsored by the dog days of summer, the lethargy unleashed after consuming three urns of buttered popcorn, and menstruation-induced anemia. So, from the Observation Deck: Show, don’t tell! — a cardinal rule of writing — is another way of saying “be specific.”…Continue Reading
Geico Update
It’s funny how stories are passed. You hear a detail here, a detail there, and sometimes one aspect gets enlarged and becomes another story altogether. If you’ve heard a family story as a kid, often times the tale becomes just that: fireside folklore lacking even the faintest hint of truth. Inspired by my post…Continue Reading
Going Geico: It’s Not Over Yet
Today, I’m compelled to write more about Going Geico™ — because its roots run deep, and referring to it obsessively is the nature of the disease. First of all, let me say, I’m no stranger to this affliction. I learned it well from my father, who pretends to know everything about everything. He’s the…Continue Reading
The Phoenix
This blog saved my life. Not in a suicide prevention way, well not really, although my creativity was dying a slow, self-induced death, but in a letting in the light kind of way. For many, many years, I denied my creative urges. There was never enough time to take that adult ballet class…Continue Reading
Wordlessish Wednesday
Because I am too busy poking my perfectly normal-sized poo down my toilet’s too-small poo hole with my white linen reed diffuser sticks, I’ve decided to hand this post over to Toots, who has a story to tell. It’s called “Witch Boo!” (And it starts in the middle, right where the action…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #16: Give ‘Em a Piece of Your Mind
Dear Everyone, You are all fabulous. You offer advice, bolster my confidence, provide support, say you’ll fly with me to New York to stall my inevitable nervous breakdown, AND play with me every Tuesday. I think you’re great. Also, those pants/Crocs/Underoos/chaps really bring out your eyes. Thank you. Love, Mrs. San Diego…Continue Reading
Amelia Sprout is in the House
Neil Kramer’s “Great Interview Experiment” is sweeping the nation, and as a nationeer, I thought I should participate. So, to whit (most probably not used correctly or in proper context), I share the interview I conducted with Amelia Sprout, which I at first thought was the name of a Harry Potter character. (Is it?) Either…Continue Reading
Twits? Tweeters? Twats?
I’d like to follow everyone I know on Twitter. But I can’t always find everyone I know. Because I’m pretty dense with bits and bytes. SO, if you Twitter, and I don’t follow you yet, and you are so inclined, and can I stop elongating this sentence now?, would you contact me with your Twitter…Continue Reading
Extra, Extra!
The wonderful and very thorough Mary Beth interviewed me yesterday as part of Neil Kramer’s “Great Interview Experiment,” and the results are up here. Right here! Luckily, she didn’t ask if I knew She-Ra’s real name, because then I’d have to kill her. Later this week, I will be continuing the Great Interview chain…Continue Reading
The Twists, The Turns
“Mommy? Do you love me?” I cringe. Not because I hate the question, but because I hate she has to ask it. I used to ask my mom the same thing, over and over again, every day, and I never received a satisfactory answer. Seems my daughter isn’t either. I’d always thought…Continue Reading
