Posts Tagged: writing

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh

December 31, 2014

My cat, Jade, is dying. I’ve heard the line, “well, aren’t we all?”, and while that may be true in one sense, in another, don’t we all know that there’s a difference, really? Since the end of October, Jade’s ‘been dying’: at that point, she was diagnosed with mast cell cancer in her spleen, a tumor in her brain, a heart murmur (which became 2 heart murmurs), hyperthyroidism, and a few other not-so-great bits. The past 6 weeks, we’ve been …

30 Days of 30. Day 7: Celebration, Smorgasboard-style.

June 08, 2013

Yesterday I did four things to celebrate my 30 Days of 30. I made sure to get lots of pictures, so I’ll let that be the focus. Writing: Every morning (mostly) I drink coffee and I sit for a while with what I’m going to post that day. Commitment to the 30 days of 30 posting provides me with a structure to write something additional to the varied writing I do throughout the day. As a writer, the discipline of …

30 Days of 30. Day 4.

June 05, 2013

Part of the reason I’m celebrating 30 days of 30 is so that I can acknowledge the small moments and the big moments, the ordinary and the extraordinary; the celebration is designed to blur the boundaries between these distinctions and to raise the question of the necessity of separating the ordinary and the extraordinary. Yesterday brought this to the fore. The main crux of my celebration of 30 days of 30 yesterday was waking up at 7:30 AM to wait …

Ursula Le Guin

April 12, 2013

Ursula Le Guin is one of my favorite female science fiction authors. A few weeks ago, I wrote her a card, enclosed a SASE, and * asked for signed bookplates . Today, they arrived in the mail. Joy, is a tangible connection to an author whom I admire and who has influenced my work. * When I sent my SASE/card, she still had the offer for bookplates posted. I must have just made it in under the wire. 

So I asked for help…

February 11, 2013

When I don’t listen, I don’t end up being eaten by a whale like Jonah. Instead, I usually end up in a car accident. Don’t ask to see my driving record: trust me on this one. Last time I had an accident, I had just ended a very important relationship. I had not one, but TWO car accidents in a period of less than 3 weeks. After my first car accident, which was about a mile from my house, I …