Today, someone in Taipei reached me via googling “Two Ways of Seeing a River.” Mark Twain lives. And me? I made it back to the gym, and my Sunday morning yoga class today after more than a week off due to illness. That’s nice. I’m in a weird mood, half sad, half gearing up for … Read more
Since I’m sick with a cold and classes are over, I don’t HAVE to go out. So I’m not going out. It takes a few days of being cooped up in the house before I actually want to start organizing. That time has come. So I am slowly going through the pile of papers on … Read more
Paul and I have discussed it, and come to the conclusion that with the fast-approaching birthday, we’re going to stop our fertility related activities…not ALL of them, but the extracurricular ones. The monthly blood tests and ultrasounds, weekly acupuncture appointments and ceramic pots of Chinese herb teas. To be honest, we’ve only been doing a … Read more
Michael Vick…He’s this football player who was convicted of running a dog-fighting ring. He just got out of jail and was recruited by the Philadelphia Eagles (I think). Some people are incensed by this, others say hey, if he can play ball… In other news…Since I don’t know anything about football, I’m joining my first … Read more
One of the first weekends this semester I haven’t been totally slammed with deadlines—a combination of both my writing classes having a “polish week” on the outlines of our projects (one is a screenplay, the other a spec script for a TV sitcom), and the holiday three day weekend—no classes Monday for President’s Day. I … Read more
1) I thought this one was kind of sweet…it is my first experience receiving a tiered form rejection. I do find it encouraging. Dear Writer, Thanks (handwritten) Thank you for giving XXXX the opportunity to read your work. we found the writing lively and interesting and enjoyed reading it. After careful consideration, we’ve decided that … Read more
Dear Barrington, Thank you for submitting to the ——- Review. After much consideration, we regret to inform you that your short story, “Photograph of Four Woman,” will not be included in this upcoming issue. Inundated with incredible stories, poems, and art, we are forced to select only a handful of pieces. We encourage you to … Read more
Before we were “in the know” enough to know that the best games are generally not available at K-Mart, Paul and I used to go to K-Mart and look at games. Truthfully, we went to K-Mart to look at most things. Alice Springs, AU was a fairly uncomplicated place to live as a consumer. There … Read more
I just got back to find life’s complexities waiting from me in various forms, one of these being the piles of mail on my desk, containing approximately 20 credit card offers, and two requests for charitable contributions. One was from the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls in Chicago, Ill. Father Scott Donahue sent me … Read more
It happens every couple years that I decide yes, I will do Christmas cards, but I don’t alway get all the way through the task. Fortunately, Valentines Day and St Paddy’s are both completely legitimate card sending holidays, even if the letter is dated somewhere in late December. Which is why this weekend, while shopping … Read more