2008, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out
You might think, after the year I’ve had, that I’d be reluctant to post a “year in review.” Although I did recently vote 2008 my Least Favorite Year in Over a Decade, there were a few good things that came out of it. So in the spirit of putting a positive spin on a truly [...]
UPDATED with video: She’s going… but she’s not going quietly
Got a call that they were set to demolish our flooded house today, so knowing that work goes quick, headed over to watch it happen. About 2 minutes into the work, something broke off the giant claw and just like that, they were done for the day. Now the house is sitting partially busted up [...]
Out of hibernation… just in time for winter!
Well, well, well.
It seems I cannot stop thinking about this blog and the opportunity it presents to share my enthusiasm for all things (most things) Des Moines.
I said back in June that things were pretty overwhelming - I can’t even begin to describe the agony that was this past summer, so I won’t even try. [...]
A writer’s ideas: not scarce, but fleeting
Last week I quoted Virginia Woolf’s statement about women writers. I did so with only the most cursory of Google look-ups to get the quote correct, and I confess I had not read the entire essay from which the quotation was taken. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and I did finally go [...]
A room… er, desk… of one’s own
Virginia Woolf once noted, “…a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is going to write.”
Well this weekend, while I couldn’t really justify taking an entire room, I did the next best thing: I cleared the end of my bedroom where all the clutter gets stored and made room for [...]
Surprised by my own post
Here’s something interesting that happened to me last week. Several weeks ago, I wrote a sort-of emotional post about taking more time to nurture my “writer within.” I almost published it immediately, but then decided for some reason to wait on it. I had gotten a little emotional writing it, and I wondered if it [...]
Becoming the writer I want to be
Remember my post from the other day about the Writer’s Market reference book? And then the one about wanting to visit my childhood house because I might be unhappy with the present?
Well, further reflection on those recent bits of self-reflection have led me to a pretty important realization: I am a writer, but I’m not [...]
DMweblife merchandise now available
Okay, some time ago I created a little online store over at Cafepress using the DMweblife logo. I then purchased the “value t-shirt” to test out the quality, and I’m pleased to report that the shirt still looks good after about six months of wearing and washing.
So - I’ve decided it’s finally okay to direct [...]
Writer’s Market: a writer’s wish-book
We were at breakfast today at Porky’s, and our favorite waitress, Kristin, told us she is a writer. I was delighted - she has such enthusiasm for her own work, none of that “I like to write but I’m not very good.” So I was telling her about a reference book for writers called “Writer’s [...]
Reincarnation and George Clooney’s Aquafina
Have you ever noticed that people who begin a sentence with “In a past life, I was…” always end that sentence with “…the beautiful daughter of deposed royalty” or “… a wealthy landowner,” but never with “…a malformed filth-covered peasant”?
The reason I’m thinking about this is that an interesting question popped up in Yahoo’s “Offbeat [...]
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