Month: June 2009

  • Krista posted this thought-provoking poem about artists (specifically writers, but it can be generalized) and I wanted to share it with all the writers and artists out there. For the young who want to By Marge Piercy Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you…

  • Change of plans

    Andy left for a business trip at the butt crack of dawn on Monday morning and was supposed to return at I-don’t-know-what-the-right-saying-is on Wednesday night. Instead, bad weather stranded him in Baltimore. Also, we were supposed to drive to Rochester today for his sister’s wedding tomorrow. Instead, he flew directly to Rochester (after spending an…

  • I just wrote a long rambling post about questions I keep asking myself (about writing vs. blogging and whether I should be more “strategic” in life) but then I realized y’all really don’t need to know all the stupid circular discussions I have in my head. (This latest bout of internal debate is the fault…

  • A lot of people say a blog should have focus. There are tech blogs, mommy blogs, fashion blogs, etc. So what does my blog fall under? Um… Yeah. When I first started blogging 15 years ago — no, seriously, at age 9 I coded every post by hand in Notepad then uploaded the html file…