Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you I love coffee shops. I didn’t used to like them, I thought they were for adults and grownup people (not, as one might assume, the same thing) who had nothing more exciting to do than sit around and drink coffee or talk to their friends […]
Testing the Waters
So I just had my website/blog designed for me by Heather Goff, who did a fantastic job listening to my vague ideas and turning them into something usable. I had tried, believe me, I tried, doing a website on my own, but it didn’t work. It might have been that I aimed too high and […]
Nik: Now Voyager
The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. ~ Walt Whitman I met Nik back in 2000, I think it was. After reading one of my stories, she wrote to me about writing. She wrote to me in a way that was passionate and dreamy. […]
My Life as a Writer
I wanted to be a writer since the 4th grade. It was one of those exercises where the teacher hands out laminated pictures and piles them on a table. You had to take one and make a story of it. Since I was at the bottom of the popular-and-attractive kid pile, by the time I […]
How I Roll
I like writing not only because it gives me god-like powers, but because when you put something down on paper, it stays there. Forever. Everything else in life is completely transitory, but writing? Seriously, it’s forever. Just look at the Rosetta Stone or the ancient Sumerian texts. They are thousands of years old, and still […]
Being Laid Off Is a Good Thing
I got laid off recently, October 11th, to be exact. I won’t mention where I worked, not only because I signed a lot of paperwork in which I promised not to carry tales, but also because it simply doesn’t matter where I worked; I could have been working for anyone. For 15 years, I was […]