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It’s Fascination’s birthday! Help me celebrate by buying a copy, won’t you? Below are three PayPal buttons. You get to decide how much you want to pay for this book, so pick one and you’ll be taken to your PayPal account for confirmation. If you’d like to pay more…
Well, we finally did it. We bought a recliner. It arrived, as so many things do, in a plain and rather large brown box. All day it sat in the sun in our yard guarded by the ever-so-fierce Seriously and her teddy bear. My partner and I tried to carry The Chair into the house… Read More My new reading chair
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One of my favorite (favorite!) authors has a new book coming out soon, and thank god too, since I’m in need of a good read. P.S. Love the colorful and intriguing cover. WHAT THE HELL View original post
Oh, how I loved this essay. It’s the perfect way to start a Monday. Enjoy! REMEMBERING THE WORST BOOK SIGNING EVER LORI JAKIELA ON THE TIME SAM’S CLUB CONFUSED HER FOR MISS AMERICA By Lori Jakiela Outside Sam’s Club there’s a bubble machine, like on Lawrence Welk. It’s meant to be festive because this is… Read More Worst book signing ever
It’s raining outside. It’s been raining for days, a moody summer rain that’s intensified the green so that everywhere I look there is green, green, green. I love the sound of rain on the roof. It reminds me of childhood and lying in bed at night, covers pulled to my chin as I wondered what… Read More Another publication, and what I’m reading
Well, as Hegel said, the pendulum swings one way and then it swings the other. Right now, it’s swinging in a good direction for me (hallelujah, and thanks to my muse and the goddess of literary intentions). All of my hard work, all of the nights I agonized over commas and line breaks and word… Read More Finalist status, more publications, and pigging out on strawberries
We have a mouse in the house. A very small, kind of cute mouse. It’s in the downstairs area, where my writing room is located. This mouse appears to like my writing room. Maybe it fancies itself as the next Franz Kafka and is using my computer to write Metamorphosis II. Or maybe it’s just… Read More Mouse in the house, and more mountains
Last week I became sick. It hit quickly and suddenly. One minute I was running trails with my partner and the dog and the next sharp pains rammed my head. I finished the run (I always finish my runs–why can’t I be as proficient with my writing?) and spent the night shivering and sweating in… Read More A few odd and wonderful books (including “Eating Bull”)
I haven’t been blogging much. Or on Facebook much. Or tweeting much, either. Because, you know: Nineteen hours of daylight. It makes a person giddy. It makes a person hyper. It makes a person do things like walk the beach at midnight and run speed intervals at 10 p.m. and sit out on the steps… Read More Nineteen glorious hours of daylight
Cinthia Ritchie 