Marche – That’s the French word for “walk”, as in “je marche” (I walk). This weekend I participated in Walk MS. I have, in past years, participated in several charitable walks — this year, this will be the only one and it’s the one that has the most meaning for me — pardon me if … Continue reading »
I got an email from my birth dad a few days back. He’s a retired college professor in Philosophy. About a year ago, we were comparing our mutual literary ambitions. He wanted to write about an historical event in the town our family is from, in the north of the state where he lives. I … Continue reading »
(sorry … broke my own meme by not having a song lyric as a title, but I can’t think of one right now ) I spent some time yesterday whilst waiting for my landlady to show up researching anthology submission requests. What I found was 1) a lot of people looking for stories for non-profit … Continue reading »
I submitted a story tonight; I think this is the third or fourth. One was to a contest and that I won’t hear about until November, if I remember correctly. The second was a piece of flash fiction, but I don’t know when I’ll hear about that. Maybe never. The third was tonight, a piece … Continue reading »
Five Signs I’ve Spent Too Much Time Writing in My Personal Universe: 5. Calling people ‘Cher/Chère’ (Louisiana pronunciation: ‘shah’) and not even intending to. 4. Turning ‘th’ into ‘t’ or ‘d’ 3. Dropping random French into my sentences, like ‘Mais’ or ‘Bon’ 2. Adding extra pronouns to the end of sentences, like ‘Mais, Cher, I’m … Continue reading »
Here’s the score at the end of the sixth inning: 1 temporary job (for the nonce), 1 face-to-face interview from yesterday’s phone interview and still waiting to hear on the 1099 job in Twinsburg. Looks like the other job is a strikeout, since I should have heard today and I didn’t. I was listening to … Continue reading »
Well, that was invigorating. I got two nice comments and a new FB/Twitter friend out of yesterday’s #FridayFlash. I’m already working on next week’s and am returning to my regularly scheduled writing a little more powered up. Nice feeling! I’ve also created a separate blog for Flash Writing: it’s not completely set up, but it … Continue reading »
[My first #FridayFlash. Be gentle; I know it's not the best thing I've ever done, but I've been working in my own universe for so long and pretty much exclusively that it was hard to break away and try something different.] The old man bent over and dispensed a handful of cracked corn for the … Continue reading »
If there are two words that describe my life right now, they would be the ones in the picture above: Epic Fail. I have been interviewing for jobs and so far there have been two results (which add up to the same thing): 1. You’re overqualified and we really think that you will be bored … Continue reading »
Well, I have posted two more stories on my website. They’re here and here. The first one (warning: canon character death) is a straight squad story. The second is the continuation of the story I started a couple of weeks ago. Hope you like them. I have two more stories substantially completed, and am working … Continue reading »
