Category: Personal
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Off
I’m off to Florida tomorrow, to attend the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, where I’ll be presented with the Crawford Award. Very excited, naturally, but it’s been hectic around here lately. Renovating my office, which has included scraping paint off all the woodwork and sanding and restaining and finishing it, as well…
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Where I’m Writing From
Greg Van Eekhout is always posting pictures from cafes where he writes, and I always like looking at his blog to see what sort of place the cafe is today, and what sorts of mugs or cups they use to serve coffee. I know, mundane, and yet it fascinates me. Maybe because I don’t write…
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Sabishii
After a night spent reading my journal from when I started it back in 2002 up until I came home from Japan in 2006, I can officially say that a.) I’m glad I’m no longer a twenty-something, b.) I’m SO glad I went to Japan and grew the hell up (well, at least a little)…
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Why are they running around Youngstown and NE Ohio?
Why are Obama and Clinton running around Youngstown and its surrounding suburbs like it’s the newest thing since, well, whatever–you know that saying. It’s been so strange these recent days leading up to March 4th to see so much attention being paid to this area. Part of me, frankly, wants to give any of these…
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Excerpt from a letter to a friend
Something I wrote to a friend today: Like you said, Hilary is a strategist, and it is just so evident. I agree with you on how the president sets the tone, too, a sort of narrative for the country. But interestingly enough, yesterday I was listening to NPR and this English man living in America–a…
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Another room down and done
Two views of the new dining room.
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Two days of spring in winter
Yesterday and today we’ve had the most gorgeous weather. 65 degrees, mostly sunny. It’s no wonder the squirrel came out to try to get back in before it becomes winter again. This sort of weather makes it feel like spring, or mid-autumn. The light and warmth must send some sort of signal to every living…
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Returning to the Scene
Earlier this fall, when I had just moved into my new house, a squirrel was living in my attic. He had chewed a little hole in an old wooden vent up there, and would squeeze in during the morning and run around above where I slept in my bedroom making all sorts of scrabbly noise…
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Literary Homemaking
Being a writer, I own lots of books. I’m sure there are probably some writers who don’t feel compelled to own walls and walls of books, and perhaps there are even some writers who have slowed down in their reading habits at some point in their life (though I would personally see that as having…
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New Things from Last Year
Three “big” good things from my last year to be thankful for are: Of course, my new house, of which I’ve posted more than enough pictures, but as rooms get remodeled, I will continue to post more. Here’s the guest bedroom’s new look. And of course this little light of mine came out in 2007.…