Moved In, Now
We’re moved into the house. It took four good friends, two solid days, and lots and lots of boxes, bags, and milk cartons, but here we are. It’s strange to break your life down and move it to a new…
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Ways I Am Not This Woman
Writes in full make-up
Wood Paneling Is Ugly
Our move-in date is this Saturday. I just keep telling myself that we are almost at the finish line. It will be nice to have ONE home again next week. And a home I own, too. The kind of thing…
Give Those Writers More Money, Already
Given the quality of most TV shows these days, I’m not sure Hollywood writers deserve more money. Ha ha. Just kidding. Here’s an interesting little video from the excellent writers of The Office about the writer’s strike. Hey I’m sympathetic.…
Article: The Quiet and The Dead
Check out my new article in the Pacific Sun on Coast Miwok death ceremonies: When a person died in a Coast Miwok village, everything went quiet. People spoke in whispers and moved gently, hushing their children and cringing at every…
Article: I Heart My In-Laws: Falling in Love with His Family
My book review on I Heart My In-Laws by Dina Koutas Poch is up on PopMatters. When I read I Heart My In-Laws by Dina Koutas Poch, I was a little worried that my mother-in-law would see the book lying…
Lots Going On
Ever since I was a little girl, I have called the phone company to get the correct time — SOS-8900. I just did it, and a recorded voice informed me that they are discontinuing the service. This is making me…
Day Sixteen-Seventeen: Boulder
Any day you climb a mountain is a good one. We stayed in Boulder for two days before driving practically straight home. On the first day, we went around the town, which reminded me of a prettier, more interesting Eugene,…
Day Thirteen: Hannibal
We spent several restful days in Louisville visiting friends and family and touring the Locust Grove mansion, which is a three-story colonial mansion where revolutionary war hero George Rogers Clark lived. I learned that the reason we use the word…
Day 10: Memphis
The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a national guitar (Pool in the hotel) I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war, I’m going to Graceland Graceland In Memphis Tennessee (Beale Street in downtown…