Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Back home again…and again
Here’s what I have noticed about being sad lately: there are moments of almost heart-wrenching sweetness that happen, even against the backdrop of uncertainty.
I am home again from visiting my mother in Florida, and I know that she is in a gray-colored room in a skilled nursing facility and that she is scared from her diagnosis of terminal […]
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
My mother’s apartment has 10,000 artificial flowers
Let me just say at the outset that it is weird to be in somebody’s apartment, staying there, when that person is not there. Especially when it’s your mother.
She and I haven’t lived together for many years, and in the interim, she has single-handedly kept the American silk flower industry afloat. And, oh yes, the basket manufacturers […]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Sometimes you’re just going along…
…and suddenly everything gets a little serious.
That’s what is happening right now, and it’s the reason I haven’t been posting in the blog lately.
The news is not good. My mother–who is 76 and lives alone in Florida–has just been diagnosed with colon cancer. And even worse, the cancer has already spread to her liver.
Right […]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Eight things you don’t know about me
Okay, I’ll play. I got “tagged” by another blog, by Henri and since I’ve seen this done on other people’s blogs, I guess it’s a fun thing to do: tell eight things that most people don’t know about me.
1. My mother thinks that I had a past life, because when I was four years old, I […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
I am finished with the book…
No, what I mean to say is: IAMFINISHEDWITHTHEBOOK!IAMFINISHEDWITHTHEBOOK!IAMFINISHEDWITHTHEBOOK!
I actually wrote the words “THE END” at 6:30 in the morning. (How corny is it to write “THE END”?–but, what can I say, the moment called for it.) I was so tired and shaky that cartwheels were out of the question–as was opening up the bottle of champagne […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
Our own personal baby boomlet
We are in the midst of a veritable population explosion in our family! It’s spring, and the little boys just keep popping out everywhere.
This newest member is Joshua, who was born on May 5, and who is in this picture just three hours old and has already discovered the magic deliciousness of his mother’s […]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Baby boomers, unite!
I was born right smack in the middle of the baby boom…and so when I first discovered the blogosphere, one of the first blogs that drew me in was one called “Boomer Chick: Musings of an Over the Hill Chick.”
Let’s just say I could relate.
Growing up in both Florida and California in those post-war developments […]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
The square peg is now in square whole
I am on the Home Stretch of my novel, which means I am hardly even eating and sleeping. Instead, I mostly just type, and every now and then I get up and let the dog out and then I shuffle around and mumble incoherent things and eat crackers.
But what passes as good news came through today: […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
The best chocolate cake EVER
My cousin Jennifer IM’ed me today. I was sitting on the back porch with my friend Nancy who comes over to write with me. We write together because it helps to have someone notice when you’re getting up too many times and perhaps not writing your novel. If she weren’t here, as I told her […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
What the heck is a virtual blog tour?
That’s what a friend of mine asked me today. “What, exactly, are you talking about being on this tour? You’re standing right here!”
It’s true. We were standing in the back yard, while her two zippy little dogs ran around us in circles.
So I figured I should explain about a virtual tour. Until just a few […]