A little cheese, please, to go with my whine
I’ll keep this short and sweet, because there’s some good stuff to report (separate post coming) and I don’t want this little “moment of negativity” to get in the way of reporting it. But, just let me say that overall, it’s been a downer of a winter. I am normally an optimistic person, but I’m [...]
2009, let’s think positive shall we?
Do New Year’s Resolutions tick you off? I mean really, what’s there to like about a weepy, nagging list of impossible must-do’s that force you to focus on your absolute worst qualities?
“Lose weight.”
“Stop (bad habit)-ing.”
“Stick to a budget.”
Blecch. Sounds like a lot of pointless self-loathing to me, so I refuse to participate. Instead, I’ve compiled [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]