Girls on Fire members (and future Casting Directors), Kiley and Cassie
NEWSFLASH: The hottest book club in America–the Girls on Fire Summer Book Club–has started meeting again.
True to form, the girls were on fire Friday to rant about the non-ending ending of Requiem, Lauren Oliver’s “conclusion” to the Delirium
I woke up yesterday with a cold sore. My lip was swollen and blistery and I was pretty sure the world was ending.
Turns out I’m still here. I think everyone else is, too. Apparently, the Mayans weren’t trying to predict anything; they just got sick of calendar-making.
Don’t think I wasn’t worried,
Offline. What a weird concept. It didn’t even exist back in the eighties when the most we could do to “disconnect” was take the phone off the hook.
Which I never did.
That was back when I was the social version of myself.
Now I’m more a hermit version, but I still can’t
Gardening isn’t my thing. Not because I don’t like it, but because I forget to do important tending activities. Watering, for example.
In my house, only plants like spider plants survive because they can live on air for weeks.
But every spring I get the same itch that the rest of you
I know what the Bean is now. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America and has, I found out, been called the Willis Tower since 2009.
This is me feeling very afraid to step out into glass boxes hanging on the sides of Willis Tower (formerly
My last post was about my choice to pursue on MFA in creative writing. This one’s about which MFA program I chose and how I chose it.
But first I’d like to echo the article Poets & Writers wrote on the topic this past fall and say that my decision to
Two more months and I’ll have completed my first year in Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program in Creative Writing (fiction). Super excited.
I often get asked about the program–What’s it like? Why’d you choose it? Why low-residency?–all the questions I asked when I was trying to decide 1.) if I
I made the transition from working 40+ hours a week as an executive manager in a public agency to becoming a full-time writer and graduate student over a period of several years.
Joining or starting a writing group can provide focus, direction, and writing support. Also deadlines help motive
