I turned 37. I did it with a six-hour work meeting, the kind that reminds you you’re a capable thinker and that the group’s morning bagels weren’t wholly responsible. I celebrated later with deep kisses, a sliver of a hamburger at a venue I’d pre-screened, a vodka gimlet sweetened by Splenda, [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Readings
11.13.10 –
I’m going to see a writer read her work tonight. I love these events, love listening to someone with ownership read something she’s viewed and reviewed dozens of times. I like thinking about where the words were written. In a coffee shop? On a writing retreat, at a kitchen table, overlooking the beach in winter? [...]
Rallying
11.01.10 –
There was a wee gathering of folks in my city this weekend. A couple hundred thousand, so some news people tell us, or eight lost tourists if you trust some of the others. Whatever you believe, I was there, right in the mess of it, hardly 100 feet left of the stage with a clear [...]