Dudes, I think there are more gophers lurking about. Of course he wasn’t the only one–and of course, you can’t end a game, or a story, on a tie.
Someone has to win and someone has to lose (there are no “win-wins” in good stories, just in good business practices). Some movie companies feel [...]
I am officially sick. Is it still the cold/flu season? Some pesky bug got into my system at the last minute–I even wonder where I caught this awful cough.
Anyway–sorry for the doldrums posting. I am feeling awfully pessimistic and feeling awfully whiny. But oh well, we all have our individual roads [...]
I wonder sometimes if I’m pulling a Huckabee–striving past futility.
I’m fairly ambitious in my exterior, fairly rock-like, too. Or at least I like to think so. But after being rejected almost thirty times by litmags in the past few months, after not getting into a residency…I am deeply questioning myself as a writer. [...]
I went to my SECOND yoga class last night. It was more difficult than my first class–the instructor was more demanding, the class more crowded, the poses focused on core muscles (the weakest point in my body). I was trembling, I felt my body STRETCHING!
But I still loved it. There is something [...]
Today–I.hate.my.novel.
I HATE IT!!!!!!!! It is a fifty ton weight around my neck. I want to toss it into the ocean, but then all I want to do is follow it to the depths. It’s like Frodo’s freaking ring. My prrrrrecious! Argh.
I keep thinking about how much of my life I’d [...]
I wrote a letter to an estranged cousin. The letter was returned to me, undelivered. I’d called him, and I’d emailed him with no response. And thus I felt the story had gone full circle, back to a starting point, back to estrangement.
But no. It continues, like any good story, without [...]
I liked yoga. Oh man, I was so happy I liked it–I felt a great physical relief participating in class yesterday. And last night, I had the best sleep I have had in months. Was it the yoga? Maybe.
But…I’m tired again. And I have to get writing my novel. [...]
I am constantly tired, once again. I am not sure why. But recently I made the decision to limit myself to one social activity a day because the whole several-activities-a-day regimen I have had the last few months is wearing me down to a nub. And I have got to get myself home [...]
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Underhill is back! Conveniently located between two dorm complexes in Berkeley, the field holds many fond memories for me. It was a green expanse that always greeted me when I peered out my seventh story window. Sometimes there were soccer games, other times lacrosse. And often, there were coeds jogging around [...]
I’m very allergic to oak pollen. And the live oaks are in full bloom here. Excuse me while I go hibernate.
I set the trap in a retaliatory strike against the gopher. This morning, I’d noticed the trap had sprung–a piece of shiny metal and disturbed soft garden soil clued me in. I told my husband (he promised me he’d fish out the trap if a gopher ever got caught), and we agreed to [...]
I think I did too much today. I don’t regret meeting up, separately but in back to back “appointments,” two friends. But now I’m a little puddle of mush and i just want to nap the rest of the day. These are the days when I’m reminded that I’m no longer the [...]
