When I was a little girl in small-town Iowa, I remember making May baskets. There were different ways to make baskets from office paper: my […]
Tag: day job
Let’s pretend this is Sunday! Weekly update.
I have been a little busy, but in fact I did have time on Sunday to write an update, I just…forgot. Like you do sometimes. […]
Okay, two weeks….
It’s been a time! I didn’t post anything last week because, to be honest, I was struggling. I don’t seem to get depressed the way […]
Last week, not much.
Good news is, I started work on The American Tour again in earnest. I have another 15,000 words or so to the end, and then […]
Conference, reading, but mostly inhumanity.
Today is my big day at the North American Review writing conference: a one-hour master class and a reading (both done now) and a signing […]
An idle hour…literally, sixty minutes.
(I have used this pic before, but until this weekend I won’t have a chance to sort out what’s going on with images. Pretend it’s […]
I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.
(And now I wonder about the origin of “hang” in this context.) I am teaching for 1:15 this afternoon, and then for 2:30 this evening. […]
Snow, again and always.
Yesterday is my 12-14 hour day: I have to get in and prep for the 2:30 undergraduate class, and then, in the three hours before […]
Tuesdays are the harriedest.
Tuesdays include two classes, one of them three hours long, plus departmental meetings periodically, plus (as today) meeting with grad students about their dissertations and […]
Moon piggery….
(This is a moonpig or something? Maybe a moondog? Moonfrog? Anyway one leg in the back, two in the front, hideous expression, and man do […]