My chickens are a year old! Rosie, the Rhode Island Red: Penny, the Lace Wyandotte: Olivia, the Columbian Plymouth Rock: They produce 2-3 eggs a day, fertilize my garden, and eat my weeds (as well as my fruits and vegetables…
I don’t have much to say about AWP 2011, the writing conference I attended last week. There are many posts on it out there, all similar in nature, with people name dropping the other cool people they hung out with.…
[Note: On the way to Washington DC to attend a conference, I received the TSA pat down. I wrote this right after it happened:] I am currently at San Francisco International Airport, otherwise known as SFO. I’m traveling with my…
Hey, check it out! I have a short story up in LitnImage. It’s called Flatten, Poke, and Blow. Excerpt: Judith’s parents’ barn is full of wooden spools. There are dozens of them wound with rope as thick as tree branches.…
This feels very true.
I was so excited to go to Barcelona, but ended up thinking it was overrated. It’s touristy, expensive, and the people are kind of mean and grumpy, and yet the city doesn’t have the great museums or sites that make…
More Spanish countryside Oh you’re still here? Okay, so the third part of the trip was Granada, which was a lovely town. Kyle and I agreed it was our favorite place we visited in Spain. It was small enough to…
View from the train on the way to Tarifa Tarifa is the Southern most city in Spain. We decided to go down there, spend the night, and then cross the water to Morocco to spend a day in Tangier before…
Okay, this is old news now, but did you know I went to Spain? It was a nice trip. October is a great time to go. The weather was beautiful, in the low 70s the whole time. We went all…
I know, you have been expecting me to write about Spain on here. And I will. But in the meantime, here is our new car: a 1970 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible. My 1993 Honda Civic is on its last legs,…