Think Kit, Day 3. Think Kit wants my strangest moment from the past year. Here it is. In Holliday Park A boy made remarkable by a blue-haired girl made remarkable by a rabbit, on a leash, and all three are standing, to my left, as I walk at the pace set by the two legs …
On Regret
Think Kit, Day 2: Yes. I am thinking hard. My brain: *pant, pant*Starting PointToday's Think Kit blog post challenge was to "[conduct] a poll and share the results." I admit I may have entertained an inward groan when I read the prompt, because at first ponder, there was nothing I wanted to ask anyone. I …
So What Kind of Year Was It?: 2013 in Pictures
This post is part of the 2013 Think Kit blogging project. I have reached the point in the year when I typically find myself ready to assess it, sum it up and give it a label: good year. Bad year. Somewhere-in-between year. I was joking with my dad a couple days ago that 2013 was …
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Random Conversation 1
Because I am fortunate enough to work with Alex Mattingly (and vice versa), we get to chatter at each other in person and via email 5 days a week. This morning I stopped by his cubicle on the way back to my desk from the kitchen to blather at him about how my week is …
On Inspiration
All the time--really, all the time--I am thinking about writing, and all the time lines come into my head, fully formed, that kick me and say, write me down. And I am dutiful--if I am at work, I hurry to open a blank Word document and type out what I have in my head. As …
Week in Review
I should be in bed reading, but instead I'm in bed staring at my computer screen, hoping I'll start typing up a blog post....kind...of...like...this.Well, hello then. How are you. I'm cold.It's Saturday so I'm sort of eh-minded about whether or not I should get any actual writing done. It's funny--you'd think the presence of Weekend …
The Nervous Space
I think the best thing about my writing group (known officially as Writing Group) is that in Writing Group, you can, just because of the nature of the gathering, talk about ANYTHING. Because when you're a writer, you just have to. You always have to be figuring things out. It's part of the unspoken job …
Start Your Engines for Blogcember
Start your engines...and other obnoxious racing phrases, all allowable because I'm a full time resident of mother effing Indianapolis, people. Do you know what's CRAZY? How much I hesitate to sit down to blog on my blog. Why? Because I'm worried about what I might say...on my blog. Myyyy blogggg. Bananas. I have got to …
New Things
Yesterday, something wonderful happened: a friend and another friend and a couple of new friends and I got together at my house for a couple hours in hopes that we could turn ourselves from Semi-Random Collection of People into Writing Group. And by the end of it -- with most thanks to my really annoying …
Hello, Big World
It is fascinating that we live in a world that is for so many overwhelmingly prohibitive, yet here I am, after what's been no time at all, yammering at you from my new little niche, this blog, my slip in the dock, where I may bob sweetly and croon or tug lines and groan for …
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