Four times a year, Kevin has to go to a shooting range and play cowboy–one of the mandatory aspects of his job. Sometimes the shooting is indoors and fairly straightforward. Sometimes it’s outdoors, with moving targets that are made to look like an assortment of criminals alongside mothers holding babies, and you have to shoot while running. You’re supposed to shoot the criminals but not the babies, and preferably not the mamas. So this morning, Kevin was out the door by 6:30 with his kevlar vest and other accoutrements– shooting day again. A few minutes ago, I called him...
Monthly Archives: June 2006
visual thesaurs
There’s a cool new site called Visual Thesaurus. Basically, you type in a word and VT provides a map of related words, each of which contains an article or audio file. It’s something of a linguistic treasure hunt. You can try it out for free, but to really explore it you need to subscribe. Each week, VT features a different author. So you guessed it, I’m blogging about it today because I’m this week’s author. The article is taken from the backstory I wrote for MJ Rose’s site. Click here to see a number of authors talking about what...
Lloyd Cole in San Francisco
Our delightful Mongolian babysitter came over last night, and Kevin & I went to dinner at The Elite Cafe, an old cajun-style restuarant on Fillmore. It’s worth a trip for the Meetinghouse Biscuits and b-b-q shrimp alone, and they make this great cocktail with Pimm’s and a slice of cucumber that, to me, tasted like home (Mobile, AL) with a kick, like a slightly spiced iced tea concoction easy on the sugar. From there we went to see Lloyd Cole at The Great American Music Hall. The first time Kevin and I saw him together was nine years ago...
when I was an engineer & beauty queen
Sometimes when I’m awake in the middle of the night, having just fed Oscar a bottle and unable to fall back asleep, I’ll go online and waste time. Last night, I played the old google-me game that most people engage in occasionally but that everyone’s too embarrassed, rightly, to talk about. Among the Michelle Richmonds of the world, I found this engineer who spoke at the Women’s Engineering Conference and who is clearly brainier than I: Michelle Richmond, after-dinner speaker, inspired members with the story of how despite leaving full-time education at 16, she now led a team of...
picolata
Dan Wickett points out today in his EWN newsletter the debut issue of a new online litmag, The Picolata Review. Named for an obscure village on the St. Johns River, The Picolata Review is “dedicated to great writing by talented authors and poets who are also just a little west of famous.” It’s a great-looking journal with some interesting content. This month, there’s an interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Lee Martin, as well as Dan Wickett. The Picolata Review is edited by author and journalist Mark Pettus, fiction writer Lisa Coutant, a poet named Andy who gives his last...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
