I am from small town manners and big city dreams. I am from tater tot casseroles and bun thit nuong. I am from love and distrust. I am from an attic bedroom and a basement home. I am from one cup of milk a day and never eating bread again. I am from the smell […]
Early memories are difficult for me. Not because they were too painful to remember or too ugly to forget, but simply because I have a terrible memory. In Writing Life Stories, Roorbach gives the writing exercise of drawing a map of your earliest remembered neighborhood. Mine would be from when we lived on River Street
Writing exercise: Memories Read More »
Back in 2000, I was freshly divorced with two kids and little life experience. Ten years on, I’ve earned my BA, my son’s nearing graduation, my daughter is bumping into her teen years and we’ve been able to visit Vietnam (2x), China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Ten years of marriage and being
2000-2009: What a decade it’s been. Read More »
What was originally intended as a dinner party, turned out to be an intimate family-style dinner with our household plus Stuart’s friend and his dad. The food was good and the view out the windows was beautiful, so as disappointing as it was to have to cancel the party due to the snow… well, at
Snow has returned… Read More »
With more journal inserting than I’d really prefer, I managed to squeak over the finish line for NaNoWriMo. I wish I could have done a better job with it, but I have to remind myself that that is what the next few months are for. There’s so much more to write and edit, but I
In two days, mind you. Nanowrimo will again defeat me, I believe. But I’ve made progress this month. I’ve written a lot of words and have a lot of editing to do in the next month. That said, though…I really do want to hit 50k by tomorrow night. Better get back to work.
31k down, only 19k to go Read More »
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is an incredibly modern city that bustles all day (and probably all night, though we always stayed in). People are always coming and going somewhere with tourists nearly always heading to the KLCC. It was the one place I definitely wanted to see–home of what was just a decade ago the tallest
Photos from Asia, part two Read More »
