Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Procrastination, vanquished? Well, maybe. I mean, YES!
I do not know why it’s so tough to do the things I need to do. (I think we all know what we’re talking about here: settling down to work, performing the yoga stretching exercises, paying bills, cleaning the dehumidifier, weeding the garden, flossing the dog’s teeth, washing the bath towels…that sort of thing.)
I have [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Stranded on a deserted screened porch
You’ve heard of the summer of love. I am having the summer of strandedness. And after two days of it, I am already learning a lot about myself.
First, may I say that I haven’t been this carless since I was sixteen and waiting for California to abolish the parallel parking requirement in the driver’s test so [...]
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Writing to a soundtrack
Do you like to have music on when you write, or do you need to keep silent to hear the characters talk?
I’m mixed on this one.
I have a CD called “The Yearning,” that is all alto flutes–soft and solid and flighty, all at once. This music has been known to reverse my blood flow and [...]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Kissing Games of the World: right here in my house
Here it is: the advanced readers’ copy of the new book, which will come out in November.
It arrived this morning, and of course I stopped doing everything else I was supposed to be doing, and just sat down with it and gazed upon it, just the way you’d need to look at your newborn baby if it had somehow [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The Once a Month book group
You see these smiling faces? This is the Once a Month book group in Lexington, North Carolina, one of the coolest book groups in the country. I know this because I talked to them on the phone this week. They had read A Piece of Normal and wanted to ask me questions about it. Before [...]