Archive for February, 2007
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
A sure-fire cure for writer’s block: get naked
Do you have writer’s block, like I do? Do you sit down to write and discover that you cannot make yourself stay in front of your computer long enough to think of words to get down on the page?
I know, I know. I often sit down to write my novel for a few hours…and then [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in writing by sandi
Friday, February 9th, 2007
So exactly how busy ARE you?
I think we now have a new benchmark to measure our amount of personal busyness, thanks to Lisa Nowak, the astronaut who flipped out and decided to murder a fellow astronaut whom she considered her love rival.
Now I’m as interested in a gruesome love triangle as the next person, but I’ve got to say that the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in real life by sandi
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
You can depend on magic
Okay, this has to be quick because it’s about 20 degrees in this house while I’m typing this, and my fingers are going to stop moving soon. The furnace thinks it is time for everybody to be in bed and so it has given up heating the house anymore. I would think that maybe it’s [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in inanimate objects, weather by sandi
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
When the well goes dry
I woke up this morning with one of those Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life feelings.
You know the kind I mean. The type of day when you’re going to steer your little cable car right back on the track of where it’s supposed to be heading. Start eating vegetables and whole [...]
No Comments » - Posted in inanimate objects, weather by sandi
Monday, February 5th, 2007
Goodbye to Bill–and Molly
The British have named January 24 the most depressing day of the year, but I say they may have gotten it off by just a week. This year, from my point of view, nothing can beat out January 31 for a sad day.
That’s the day we lost both Molly Ivins and Bill Meade.
Molly you probably [...]
No Comments » - Posted in friendship, real life by sandi
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Say cheese–and then feel good about yourself
These days, life and fashion being what they are, all of us are being made to feel horrible about our harmless little rolls of fat.
You can hardly thumb through a magazine without seeing that your personal body is grossly out of style–even if you wear a size zero. Size zero is the new size ten, as [...]