Archive for June 2013
See you later, alligator
There’s a saying I keep on my bulletin board, the place where all the schoolwork fit for display is hung. It says “When you’re a parent, the days pass slowly, but the years fly by.” I’m not a ‘quality time’ parent. I’m in it for the details, not the days at Disney World (although those…
Read MoreHow I'll Be Spending My Summer Vacation
If I squint, I can just see the end of this book I’ve been working on for such a long time. It’s there, misty and unformed, but close enough to touch — hopefully sometime in the next few weeks. After I’ve written those blessed last words — The End — I’ll take a week or…
Read MoreThink Less. Write More.
After umpteen months, I can finally see the end of this novel. It’s there, just out of reach, perhaps three chapters away. I’ve been writing those final lines at baseball games, at dance rehearsals and while grocery shopping, carving them out of the air, inscribing them on my mind. But I haven’t put them on…
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It’s spring in New England, at least for a little while. Summer vacation is right around the corner. I have a lovely craft post all planned — you’re really going to like it — but between baseball and soccer, baseball and recitals, baseball and concerts and more baseball, I haven’t actually written it yet. (Also,…
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