>The Hubris! The Hubris!
>Assuming that I do not get messed up by a blizzard (an actual one, not the political one), I will be in the Chicago area this afternoon for a weekend visit with my family. Initially, Husband was to...
View Article>What’s Fucking Cookin’ in the Windy City
>Despite foreboding reports from CNN that due to weather conditions, yesterday was one of the worst days to travel, my flight not only took off on time, but also landed early. The flight was smooth....
View Article>Slipper When Wet
>”Watch out when you go in the shower,” my mom said to my sister on Saturday morning. “The tub is slippery.” “Duh! That’s how tubs are!” “No, really. The cleaning people came and removed five inches...
View Article>Sunday Spazz Sessions
>On the way home from a lovely weekend visit with Alex Elliot & family, Steph, Husband, and I discussed cars that our parents had driven when we were kids. Steph mentioned a Cadillac Eldorado...
View Article>Pneumonia Ice Cream
>”How are you?” my dad asked me when I spoke to him on the phone earlier. “Ugh, I’m sick again,” I said, coughing and sputtering. “Oh, do you have a cold?” “Probably, but my lungs hurt when I cough,...
View Article>New and Improved
>Anyone have any suggestions as to where I can get free photo editing software? I want to post a picture I found of Husband and I from the summer of 1996 or 1997, but he doesn’t want his face...
View Article>More to Love
>While I was at my parents’ house two weeks ago, I found this photo of Husband and me from 1996 or 1997: Here we are in July 2009: There was a hell of a lot more of us to love back then. It is also...
View ArticleNew Mottoes
During class on Tuesday night, I reflected on my inability to write things that are descriptive. I decided that it is because I do not think in images, but in concepts. Por ejemplo, when I think about...
View ArticleDiscoveries and New Projects
>First, the important things – here are pictures of Marcus from my visit to my parents’ house this weekend:With Great Grandma in the car.On Tante Suzanne’s lap in Grandma and Grandpa’s living...
View ArticleAlways: Chapter 1
>For the most boring first chapter of a young adult novel in the history of young adult novels, read Chapter 1 of my first novel, “Always.” I can only excuse myself by noting that I was probably...
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