Apparently I’m not the only person who hates talking on the phone: I had more response to my previous post than any other I’ve written. I guess I touched a nerve. Who knew? I thought my phone-loathing came out of my own personal agoraphobic, anti-social issues, but apparently a healthy majority of us resent the [...]
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July 27, 2010
Don’t Call Me. Really. Don’t.
I have an issue with the phone. I’m not sure what it is. I just kind of hate it. I don’t want it to ring. Ever. Maybe it’s because I’m married and not looking for a date. Whatever. I just hate when the phone rings. Caller ID was invented for people like me, people who [...]
July 19, 2010
Family Games
This weekend was great. Really. I’m a glass half-empty kind of person (as my kids keep pointing out to me: “Mom! You’re being so glass empty right now!”) but even I can’t find anything wrong with the weekend we just had. Tons of free time (after a couple of super-frantic weekends earlier this month), a [...]
July 16, 2010
Helpful Tips for Your Next Booksigning
For an author, booksignings can be fraught. Sure, there’s the easy part at the beginning when the author just has to be able to read out loud without falling over her own voice. The Q and A usually goes pretty smoothly too. (I suggest bringing a few ringers: my kids are excellent at coming up [...]
July 12, 2010
Summer Is Really Here
I know this because I don’t want to work. Admittedly I never want to work. I mean I do in an intellectual sense. I’m always going around saying, “I wish I had more time to work,” and I spend a lot of effort trying to clear some time so I can work, but then when [...]
July 9, 2010
Just for Fun
I’ve been so so so busy that I haven’t had time to post much this week, but wanted to give you all a laugh for the weekend. We’re such devout Simpsons fans here (for obvious reasons: the show puts food on our table) that I don’t tend to watch other prime time animated shows but [...]
July 2, 2010
Yeah, I’m Drinking Coffee Again
Want to make something of it? Sorry. If I sound a little testy, it’s because I’m exhausted. Once I gave up coffee and started eating really healthily (yogurt and berries for breakfast, salads for lunch, heavy on the veggies for dinner, one small glass of wine before dinner and one small piece of chocolate for [...]
June 30, 2010
The (Possibly Non-Existent) Future of Writing
Two of my sons are currently enrolled in creative writing courses. One’s away at the University of Iowa, studying fantasy writing and one’s living at home, taking a class through the Center for Talented Youth on . . . fantasy writing. (It’s making me wonder whether I ignored them too much as toddlers while reading [...]
June 28, 2010
I Have No Memory
I realize the above statement is going to lead to the same response I got when I said my house is messier than other people’s: a rush of readers hastening to (very kindly) reassure me that they too have faulty memories. But in the same way I’m sure my house is messier than anyone else’s, [...]
