Writing the good read
While out doing errands today, I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion on KUOW, my local NPR station, when Garrison Keillor launched into his news from Lake Wobegon. He was talking about how people will like things despite common sense — like the love of the desert southwest in the summer even though you…
I grew up in a single parent home. My mom dated and periodically had long-term boyfriends. We liked some. We could have done without others. My dad’s love life was a bit more remote, and he quickly met and married my step-mom. Happily, she was a keeper. But it was a different time, and I…
Full disclosure: I haven’t yet read What Do Women Want, this week’s book. However, I have read articles, excerpts, reviews, and listened to interviews with the author, Daniel Bergner. It’s on my nightstand awaiting its turn. But all that exposure to it has got me thinking. Naturally, my thinking demanded an audience. The book looks…
Or How I’m Trying To Have My Cake and Eat It, Too I’ve been seeing Mr. Right Now for three months. It’s a nice relationship — fun, drama free. He makes me smile. He is very attentive. He is kind. Mr Right Now is fairly incorporated into my life, spending time regularly with me and…
If my life is a movie, I get that I’m the star, and the director and producer, but I’m pretty darn sure at this point that someone else wrote the script. Because this is not where I’m supposed to be, in an personal care aisle in a superstore looking at 18 shelf feet of choices…