What it should be.
On the shuttle to work this morning, adrift in a sea of North Face jackets and jeans and sneakers, I held onto my thermal mug of tea and marveled at how we never ever get very far from high school. The seats may be softer, but we bounce around just the same. I have read too much about what content on the web should be. I admit to being very tired of this “should be” talk, external or internal. I would take a side, but taking a side means there are sides to take. We can argue about who is doing it better, whose content is more important, but how does that work, exactly? Are journal entries less important than reviews of iPhone apps? Who decides this, and why? My first taiko class taught me something I forgot: be still, eyes open, and embrace the lack...
Read MoreMy year, line by line.
I am not in the mood for questionnaires today, so you get posts instead. This exercise instructs me to take the first line of the first entry from each month for the last year. I shall obey. Mostly. I skipped the “week in tweets” posts because they annoy me. January A pile of hopes, socks just out of the dryer, top a new year. February Because you asked … here are my favorite gluten-free recipes. March This is a brilliant explanation of the Trolololololo meme. April This is our beautiful Torgi-cat. May If you don’t live in San Francisco or care about city infrastructure, skip this post. June From the site: “Your writing, notes, and to-do lists online.” July I am attempting to wrangle decades of clutter. August I walk down a deserted...
Read Morepuppy love
The puppy was named Kenya. She was a service animal — not a guide dog, so it was okay that I interacted with her — and she was three months old. I met her in line at Starbucks. She licked my hand as I petted her and I tried not to cry, but there were at least three very good reasons for tears to occur. So I got an expensive latte with a complimentary trip down memory lane. I am superstitious about the 23rd day of the month, so today I am finding all sorts of signs amongst chaos. For example, I am now convinced that I wrote that last sentence simply to rediscover my love for the word “amongst”, forgotten until just a few moments ago. Egyptian Magic is a company with a skin cream that is supposedly the best skin cream ever. They all say...
Read MoreWhere I Write
Where I Write is a collection of photographs of fantasy and science fiction authors’ “creative spaces”. I wish my creative space were as marvelous as some of these! Where do you write? What do you like about it? What do you wish you could change? (Thanks to my writing group leader David for the link.)
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