Category Archives: Blogging

Maud Newton Is a Nice, Selfish Reader

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

As I drove to hear her address the MFA students in the Butler University Efroymson Center for Creative Writing the other evening, I formed a question to ask during Q&A. I can never think of an original question at these things or have burning curiosity about anything I haven’t already read about an author in an interview, but there was one thing I really wanted to know from this Rebecca “Maud” Newton, who has been a champion literary blogger since before blogging was even a word. What I wanted to ask her was, Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned from My Kitchen Remodel

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

And, you would not believe how many people find my blog — from locales as varied and distant as Moscow, New Zealand, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam (Vietnam!?!) — by googling things like, “caesarstone blizzard quartz” and “Benjamin Moore Balboa Mist Reviews,” (but mostly “SNL Starkeisha It’s My Birthday Up in Here”), so I feel I owe it to these random and faithful visitors to throw them a kitchen bone here and there when a kitchen-related thought pops into this distracted brain.
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It Takes Three Tries to Kill a Psycho Movie Villain, and the Fine Dining Coffee Always Tastes Best At the End

Posted on May 4, 2010 by

Remember the end of Fatal Attraction, when you think Anne Archer has drowned Glenn Close in the bathtub, only she’s not dead, and Glenn springs out and grabs Anne by the throat? Or like in Friday the 13th (pick one) … Continue reading →

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Hell Has Frozen Over…

Posted on May 3, 2010 by

…and I’m in it. After a gloomy weekend of rainy weather, it’s Monday, the kids have a Flex Day, and the sun is shining. The sun is shining bright like a blue sky day on the beach, it’s 75 degrees, … Continue reading →

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A Room Is Not a House

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Our kitchen is still a kitchen Even when there’s nothing there but itchin’ (for completion) But a kitchen is not a house, And a house is not a home When the five of us are far apart And one of … Continue reading →

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