My friend Nicole recently ran the Chicago marathon. You can read her story, "Chasing Garbage Trucks (a marathon story)" at her blog, Five Penny Nicole. It’s really moving. Nicole is a fellow Chicagoan who also moved to Madison, so a lot of what she wrote resonated with me.
I mention this because as you can see, [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing Musings’ Category
10 Nov
Update on Willow (or Running the race as slow as I can…)
1 Oct
Rambling Thoughts on a Rainy Cold Night…
I’m sitting here in my chair, a mug of decaf hot Lipton tea next to me (my third one), and an episode of Babylon 5 playing on the TV.
Rainy nights always make me moody.
Our cable went out a couple of months ago. I haven’t missed it at all. Been too busy working on Willow [...]
18 Aug
Dealing with Fantasy of a Different Sort (or I would reject your reality to substitute my own, except my fantasy is nicer than my reality…)
So last week our dryer broke down. Just stopped working on us. You would think that would sadden me, but it didn’t. For me, No dryer meant that I could actually dry our clothes outside.
Now let me tell you something–I’ve always had this weird desire to do line-drying outside. Call it a idyllic vision from [...]
21 Jul
Thoughts on my first public Reading (well, not really public, but still…)
So last Thursday, I did my first short story reading to an audience. It was pretty fun. It wasn’t a public reading, though; it was for an art show our organization put on. I thought that since I knew everyone there, it would be an easy thing. I was suprised, therefore, when I spent most [...]
5 Mar
Death of a Writer Mama
This past week, I took Daniel to get registered for kindergarten. It hasn’t really hit me yet that come September, Daniel will be going to big-boy school, as we’ve been calling it. It hasn’t really struck me yet that within a few months, I’ll no longer have a preschooler on my hands, but an honest-to-goodness [...]
23 Feb
The In-Between Time (or when one gets addicted to LiveFeed on Facebook…)
I’ve been trying to think of a good blog post to write. It’s been a slow month, writing-wise. The only serious project I’ve been working on is prepping Willow up for the 2nd draft. The past couple of weeks, I’ve been finalizing names, places, histories, backgrounds. I’ve also put up a new word counter, seen [...]
17 Dec
It’s rest time; Cafe going on Christmas hiatus
So if I was Daniel a couple of years from now, I’d be like, “Wait a minute. We live about an hour away from Wisconsin Dells, with all the water parks and rides and fun, fun, fun…and we can go up anytime we want, and you didn’t tell me? Why aren’t we up there EVERY [...]
