Category: Personal
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Dear World
I am in New York City vacationing at the moment. So I won’t be around here, and won’t be quick to respond via email, for the next week (and for several days thereafter, as I’m going to be going from NYC to Cleveland to teach at the Imagination Writing Workship at Cleveland State University till…
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Moving in
I am moved into a new apartment (same building, now on the second floor), which is pretty damned big and cool and well-decorated (thanks to Tony–I’m so not an interior design oriented person). Pictures of the new place in the flickr box on the sidebar. Go and admire my new office and bedroom and living…
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Wiscon Redux
Ok, so I am settled into a cafe here in Youngstown with wifi access that you *don’t* have to pay for, which seems to be the problem with a lot of cafes I stop in at. So many are those T-mobile spots like at airports where you have to buy access, which I think is…
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Of Nebulas and New York City
Just a quick post before I go back to my busy-busy mode. The Nebulas were an interesting experience, especially as I went not having entertained winning as a possibility for even a moment, and so this provided me with more of an anthropological view of the event. The hotel was snazzy and expensive, the drinks…
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Behind, behind, behind
I’m so behind on e-mails. Please forgive me. If I owe you one, I’ll try to respond by this Wednesday, when I’ll be heading off to New York for the Nebula Awards weekend.
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A real writer
I have been working at one of those put-it-together-yourself shoddy desks since I moved into my apartment last summer, because it was cheap and I needed to use my money for things that were more essential at the time. But writer friends sometimes talk about their desks and I’ve always felt like I wasn’t a real…
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One more dimension
I looked on the Random House page for One for Sorrow today. They have the number of pages listed for it now: 336 pages. I want to squeal like a little kid for some reason over page numbers, probably because it adds yet another dimension to the book that makes it feel real. I could also…
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Re-centering
I don’t want to write about what my feelings are surrounding the incident at Virginia Tech. My students and I talked about it in class today, and in that sort of setting, one on one, everyone in a circle, looking at each other and trying to recognize each other’s humanity as best we can, and…
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Weight
I feel like I’m wading through a fog today. Between the already low energy phase I’ve been in for the past few days, and then what happened down at Virgina Tech, and then finding out, well, lots of other sad news from friends, I’m not really running on all cylinders. Everyday, lately, it feels harder…
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The Stage is back, see you there…
The STAGE. Come to it