No Time to Stop and Smell the Cowboys and Flowers

June 11, 2009

Ted and I are in the process of moving from La Jolla to Azalea Park. When I say in the process I mean we are:

Stressing

Thinking about packing

Stressing

Worrying about having enough money to survive this summer

Stressing

Collecting Boxes for packing

It’s a beautiful neighborhood and gorgeous house so here’s hoping it all goes smoothly.

Oh, did I mention I start teaching this Monday (great time to move, eh?) for 6 weeks.

Eesh.

So, to keep my sanity i’ve been reading Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life– really compelling stuff.

In 1934, when John Cheever was 22 he lived on Hudson Street in NYC and was hanging out with “Agee and Sherwood Anderson and [John] Dos Passos, as well as a good deal of his beloved [E.E.] Cummings.”

Wow.

I also made two new postcards for my Cowboys and Flowers Series.