Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
This may not be a problem a lot of you have run into, so I have to share that it's kind of challenging to find clerical shirts for women that a woman would want to wear. Particularly if one's clerical activities fall outside the realm of traditional church-choir stuff (more on this in "Confessions of … Continue reading The Reluctant Fashionista Springs Forward
Actually, I'm writing today about my mom-in-law and my dad-in-law, but "Fairy Godfather" just has a wrong ring on several levels... I'm getting ahead of myself, though. This is a story about the tool of my trade--the laptop--and a miraculous magical rescue. Since I took to writing full-time, I've spent anywhere from ten to twenty … Continue reading Mother-in-Law or Fairy Godmother?
Imagine, for a moment, a musician who'd been named to the list of "100 Greatest Living American Songwriters" before the age of thirty, whose albums are laden with lyrical language and layers of literary and intellectual references... And imagine that same musician writing two hundred pages of fiction with all the lyrical allure of his … Continue reading Reading Review (Idaho Writers series): “Bright’s Passage” by Josh Ritter
I was rummaging through some old notebooks today, trying to find the lyrics to a song we loved as kids–”If everybody had a tail and chose its shape and size“… What I found instead was a pair of pages written about a decade ago, reflecting on the different personalities with which I seemed to write … Continue reading Wearing a Party-Tail
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