Everybody wants in. How can you tell? They opened the submission gates this morning, and the portal, WithoutaBox, is completely overwhelmed. I have the submit page open in two browsers and the windows are blank, trying to load, on both. Paul is texting our friend Nikki, and the situation is the same all around. The … Read more
Realized I hadn’t updated since that last post. Should probably mention the emotional boat has righted itself and I am back to rowing it. On top of the water. Small boat in a big sea, but at least not capsized and drowning. Yay! Also, I asked to change my hours at work and they said … Read more
[wpvideo SpOthc1X] HAPPY NEW YEAR! I woke up this morning and thought, “I should learn how to make a Vine. For those who might not be familiar, a Vine is a 6-second (or less) video made with a mobile phone application called “Vine.” Although I have a couple of friends who play around with it, … Read more
Almost 9:30 and the sun is shining, the day well on its way to the 75 degree high that has been promised to it. I have my pants legs rolled up for the vitamin D, and this combined with a hat and too many bags results in people looking at me twice–discreetly–before they sit near … Read more
Not sick yet, but it will be amazing if I’m not by the end of the week. My boss, who was sick all last week and today, has been working half days. A still-sick faculty member just handed me a folder full of germ laden receipts she organized and labeled while home sick, and the … Read more
In a minute I have to get out of bed. When I do, I have to mix up the nasty, sea-water-tasting solution I will have to start drinking as soon as I arrive home from work. I will put it in the fridge to chill, because chilled sea water is more palatable than warm sea … Read more
Woke this morning to find October bearing down upon me like herd of stampeding horses. “Herd” is not right, though. That’s for cattle. It’s morning and my brain is losing words, but you get my drift. I mean a large group of stampeding horses. Or other large animals that stampede. October has come really fast, … Read more
When it’s really hot on a Sunday, the coffee shops and the few libraries with Sunday hours are overrun with writers and students escaping their air-conditionless environments. The Beverly Hills Library is one of those few that is open, and I am one of the many who has arrived, trolled the back room of tables … Read more
End of the week, beginning of the weekend. Weekends can be kind of tricky because they “feel” like weekends, but really, as a writer with a day job, there’s some heavy lifting to be done on the weekends. Up until today I had several quasi-plans for the weekend–these are plans that people have broached but … Read more
My brother is leaving LA and moving (back) to Chicago. I’m happy for him, because it feel like a change, and it feels he’s been looking for a change, but I’m also sad because he will be gone. Although we are certainly different in many ways, in other ways, of my siblings, we have the … Read more