Still no phone line. Moving now. Hope to have my first night at the new house by Saturday. Will have internet there. Wish me luck. More posts if/when the phone line is up or if/when I’m in [...]
[No phone line again last night…sorry for the delay.] I’ve been challenged further by my advisor. She agrees that my story is the quiet story of growing up girl in America. [...]
[Sorry there was no blog last night. We lost power up in the thicket for about six hours and the phone line was so spotty I couldn’t even maintain a dial-up connection.] But oh, it was the [...]
Well folks, we lost a great one. Here is an obit a friend sent to me. Sorry I can’t find a source/author for it: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 The proper length for an obituary for Kurt Vonnegut [...]
See, they know they’re absolutely attractive, charming, sexy, and entertaining when they walk in the door. And they know they’re at home because I’m their barista and they’re caffeine [...]
Ok. I never do this. But… That post about Book Sense: Of course I meant Dorothy Allison wrote Bastard Out of Carolina. Not, obviously, Dorothy Parker. I even had the book sitting right in [...]
Extra phlegm. Gargantuan right tonsil. Bloated. PMS on top of it all. Two stings from wasps that snuck underneath my clothes in my own home. What a day. Feverish. Trying to rest up. Deadline [...]
I’m about fed up. I’ve whinnied and whined. I’ve philosophized and theorized. I’ve sought advice and given over to the random voices. And still, my reading list for this semester fails to dazzle [...]
The middle-aged woman whimpers like a helpless bird, then gestures rapidly with her fingers, opening her mouth and directing her hand aggressively down into it. I am the barista, she is the [...]
All of the sudden, winter is upon is again. In the morning, snow and sunshine engage in a cross fire over the mountaintops, here a cloud and flurries, there a blue patch of sky. Tonight, it’s a [...]
