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Guest blogging at Writer Unboxed
Two news tidbits this morning:
Monthly blog post up at Writer Unboxed: The Last Month of a Book (or “I am pregnant beyond all ability to describe it” ). Which I wrote Monday.
Tuesday morning, the Pikes Peak Writers Conference called with an emergency. One of their keynote speakers is unable to fly and they asked if I could possibly fill in. I said yes so fast I think the organizer was startled, but I think I’m starved for the company of my tribe, and it will be good to drink it all in, and for some reason, teaching and speaking energizes me. So it will be fun.
But you can laugh at me if you want. I understand. The universe is chuckling, too. …
A famous writer in my 2nd grade classroom
Joan Didion, the celebrated writer, went to Columbia Elementary School for awhile. The old building, made of red sandstone (as well as I can recollect), not the modern version that occupies the lot these days. I have been drunkenly reading her work, admiring the western cleanness, the spare and unsentimental way she captures the world, my world, the west. I was electrified to read her casual mention of the school, a brief sojurn while her father worked at Petersen Field, and even though I now wish to find the exact reference, I can’t. It was small and not very important.
Is is important to me, however, because I went to Columbia Elementary School, too, back when it was a tall, graceful building with long double hung …
Podcast available
Check out a podcast of an essay I wrote about a restaurant I worked in when I was a teenager: Pining for Michelle’s
I think you’ll enjoy this little glimpse into my world.
The Most Disgusting Food Ever
The worst food ever, on a winter night in the 70′s.
