Daily Updates
Christine is gone 🙁 and TN is on the phone making that “uh huh, uh huh… uh HUH… uh huh” noise again. I forgot my mother’s birthday yesterday. We had Continue Reading →
Month: March 2009
Successes 4 Sarah
What is it that makes Friday afternoons so seemingly endless? I guess the sweeter the treat, in this case the weekend, the more you long for it, and the further Continue Reading →
Hooray for historic hermaphroditic travelogues
I have finished The Sinkings! Wow. How horrendous. A woman, Willa, gives birth to a baby who is both a boy and a girl. In an effort to help the baby Continue Reading →
Yes, I’m an amardillo in a bucket
Please God, if I never own own any other furniture, can I have this? I love how small the TV is in comparison with all the books. Exactly how life’s Continue Reading →
Wild black pig in white rainstorm
I promised I’d share my favourite bit of Michael Ondaatje’s autobiography, Running in the Family, so here goes. You have to imagine a wild forest in Sri Lanka. Monsoon season. Continue Reading →
Faith, pacts, and book store owners
I’ve been on a bit of a Jodi Picoult spree lately. After finishing Keeping Faith in less than 24 hours (which is me making a point about its addictiveness, not Continue Reading →
Tweeting (the same as tweaking?)
This is the workshop I attended yesterday. Which, miracle of miracles, finally got me on Twitter.
Pitiful whimpers (and writer’s slouch)
My back kinda feels like it’s broken into a million pieces. The chiropractor fleeced me this morning. According to this my chronic pain is because I’m a writer. More probably Continue Reading →
Welcome to the real world
I am back in the real world! I tried to write when I was home, but it took me THIRTY SIX minutes to get from turning the computer on, to writing Continue Reading →