Reading the book A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher; she’s one of the featured writers at Fishtrap, where I won a fellowship for July so I thought I’d better read her book. It’s won or been nominated for a slew of awards and it turns out I remember this book being reviewed in Entertainment Weekly [...]

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 I haven’t been posting lately, sorry. I just finished my teaching semester last week and this week I started teaching summer school, so I had about, umm, three days off in between. They call that a weekend. On top of that i’ve got a cold, that feels to me like bronchitis, and I even lost [...]

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Remember Grant Goodeve? He played the oldest son, David Bradford, on Eight Is Enough. (photo courtesy of becoming.net). He also sang the title song. Well, this post has nothing to do with Grant Goodeve, but it does have to do with Grants. I spent just about the entire weekend working on a Writing Grant. The [...]

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I’m a baby. I’m a mess when i’m sick. I hate being sick. <–remember Sniffles?! I’m not really that sick but I have a bad code cold. I’m all congested, my head feels like it’s going to expwode explode. I’m sniffling, sneezing. Blowing my nobe nose all day. Thankfully, i’m not really feeling too terrible, [...]

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Did you catch Project Runway this week? Sweetpea finally got some recognition. Go Sweetpea! But the best two moments in the show were the lines delivered in typical deadpan by Tim Gunn: “Resolve the skirt” and When he told Sweetpea that her first attempt at a Denim Wedding Dress looked like “Happy Hands at Home [...]

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