I picked up salads from CPK (California Pizza Kitchen) for dinner tonight, and horror of horrors, my salad was missing the avocado! I called CPK prepared to be furious, but they instantly offered me a whole new salad plus my choice of desserts. I went from “You bastards robbed me of my avocado!” to “ZOMG!!! [...]
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May 19, 2008
|Inspiration, TV Shows, Writing
During my commute this morning, I flipped on NPR in the middle of this story: Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter’s Soul by Jamie Tarabay. NPR sums up the piece thusly: Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved the world and the sanity of NPR’s Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad. Tarabay explores why she needed [...]
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May 18, 2008
|Life Stuff, Photos
A few weekends ago, I flew up to Oakland and had the pleasure of meeting two wonderful little boys. The first was my new nephew Cassell, seen here laughing at his crazy aunt: Cassell really likes singing, and since I am an accommodating crazy aunt, I sang the “Soft Kitty” song to him about six [...]
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May 15, 2008
|Above World, Jade Tiger, Writing
I’ve been out of sorts for the last two weeks, and yesterday I finally figured out why: I miss my novel. I miss my characters. I didn’t go through this phase much with Jade Tiger back in 2003 because a family tragedy pretty much consumed my life for months after I finished. The post-novel blues [...]
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May 14, 2008
|Martial Arts
Before I describe the new pushup torture I witnessed in class tonight, let me first say that I did none of them.* Level 1: Pushup position, but with your feet flat against a wall. Move your feet about one foot up the wall, and do the pushups from that position. Level 2: Body folded in [...]
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May 14, 2008
|Inspiration
I’d never heard of Irena Sendler until I saw this article: Heroine Who Saved 2,500 Children during Holocaust Dies at 98 From the article: During the war, Sendler was a social worker and used her position to go into the ghetto and smuggle out children. Because the Nazis feared disease, she went into the ghetto [...]
Read More ...I got some fabulous news this weekend: My story “Monstrous Love” will appear in the next issue of Flytrap!!! I’m thrilled that this story has found a home, and ultra-mega-thrilled that it has found such a good one. “Monstrous Love” is another tale in my (hopefully) ongoing “Bulfinch High” series. I read the opening at [...]
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May 2, 2008
|Inspiration
Or should that be “sportswomanship”? For a feel-good Friday read, check out Sportsmanship on display in college softball game (via Salon). As for the people who say this is just another example of how women aren’t competitive enough for professional sports, I say: Watch more women’s sports and get a clue. As for the people [...]
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