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Day 179: Birthing Baby Bunnies, or, What Was She THINKING?!
TODAY’S STATS: # of pages revised: 20 # of pages written on new project: 8 Yesterday I was at the gym, listening to the podcast “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” and I learned a very bizarre story...
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Day 226: AWP is Stalking Me!
Special Announcement: For those of you in the Boston area, or attending the AWP Conference, come to the (free) Burlesque Press AWP Kick-Off Reading onWednesday, March 6th at 8pm at Crossroads Pub (495...
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Day 241: Oz Tries to Please Too Many People: A Review of Oz the Great and...
TODAY’S STATS: # of literary mags submitted to: 1 There was a time in childhood when my greatest desire was to go to Oz. I read all the L. Frank Baum books the library had, dressed up as Dorothy one...
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Day 246: An Open Letter to My Single Strand of Gray Hair
Recently my friend, Daniel Wallace, got an open letter published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. If you don’t read their column “Open Letters to People or Entities Unlikely to Respond,” you really...
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Day 248: Pretty Pretty Princess Trivia: Children’s Books That Were Made Into...
TODAY’S STATS: # of pages written: 7 On Monday night my boyfriend and I went to trivia at Wonderland Ballroom in Washington, DC. Our team name was Pretty Pretty Princess Special, and I think we came...
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Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby: All That Jazz, Yet I Wasn’t Impressed
YESTERDAY’S STATS: # of pages written: 7.5 Why didn’t I like Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby? I enjoy Baz Luhrmann movies. I love The Great Gatsby. I like Leonardo DiCaprio. So what happened? I knew...
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Day 307: Words of Wisdom from a Ukrainian CEO
YESTERDAY’S STATS: # of pages written: 21 Every day I get on Skype and ESL tutor a middle-aged Ukrainian man named Sergey. We read together (the news, biographies, children’s books, etc.) We practice...
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Day 309: Arrested Development & Lessons Learned on a Bad Day
TODAY’S STATS: # of pages written: 4 Yesterday was sunny and beautiful, and it should have been an amazing day. Paul and I woke up excited because it was the day the new Arrested Development series was...
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Day 311: Making Babies Is Out for Now, but I Have a NEW LIFE PLAN!
MY NEW LIFE PLAN will be revealed on Friday, May 31! One afternoon a few weeks ago, my boyfriend, Paul, and I went for a walk in my mother’s quiet, woodsy neighborhood. My mother lives in a comfortable...
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Day 9: Meditation, Creativity, & Snacks
MY JULY GOALS FOR LIFE FULFILLMENT 1. Meditate every day for at least 10 minutes 2. Read blogs and learn how to promote my own 3. When I’m about to say something negative, say something positive...
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Day 13: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
MY JULY GOALS FOR LIFE FULFILLMENT 1. Meditate every day for at least 10 minutes 2. Read blogs and learn how to promote my own 3. When I’m about to say something negative, say something positive...
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Syria, How to Love, & Strengthening Your Heart
*Check out my review of Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove on Burlesque Press!* “Melt your heart. Strengthen your heart. Breathe around your heart and support it with air.” Last night my...
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Many a Hand Has Scaled the Grand Old Face of the Plateau
*Check out my poem on a postcard at Hoot!* A few Wednesdays ago I grabbed the old, crappy guitar my boyfriend found in his grandma’s basement and headed out of the house. I didn’t have a case for it,...
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Playing the Guitar, Writing a Novel, & the Wise Advice I Got From My Tea
My fingers hurt. Specifically, the fingers on my left hand, and especially my pointer finger, which my guitar teacher calls “the general.” Guitar, of course, is the reason my fingers hurt. I’m in the...
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I’m an Amazing Person! (And So Is My Running Partner)
I have never been good at running. I have never liked running. And yet, I’ve always been curious as to what other people find so great about it. And so, every now and again, I try to get into running....
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Drinking on the Job: The Myth of the Alcoholic Writer
*Check out my review of Night Film on Burlesque Press!* I just started taking guitar lessons a month ago, and my guitar teacher says that while I’m learning to transition from one chord to the next, it...
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The Best Halloween Costumes
The other day I posted an amusing link on my facebook page to 70 Vintage Halloween Costumes That Were Really Creepy, and my mom joked that she’d have to upload a picture of the cow costume she made for...
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Getting Lost, in Tukwila and in Life
My dear friends Cory and Melissa got married on Saturday, and I flew to Virginia to be a bridesmaid in their wedding. It was a beautiful, super-fun wedding, and the only thing that made it less than...
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When Luck Turns, or, Does the Universe Want Me Playing the Guitar?
Either the universe really wants me to play the guitar, or it really doesn’t. I’m having trouble reading the signs. I decided back in the spring that I should learn the guitar. Everyone else in my...
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Masquerades, Money, & Choosing the Cheapest Thing
My boyfiend was out of town for most of last week – he went to DC for some meetings and then to North Carolina for a wedding – which meant I watched an entire season of Girls, slept in the middle of...
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