No wonder I couldn’t sleep. There was a dead mouse in my bed.
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My best friend and I get stuck inside our favorite coffee shop by a police standoff across the street. Bad news: have to stop reading two great novels. Good news: get to start reading writers group submissions! How am I, this Fourth of July? Alive and kicking! My happiest summer: building WWI airplane models as a kid. I get a new book proposal out. Hopefully money coming in will ensue. At last, Emma’s home. Kathy and Steve Kubica brought her back from the kennel today. Poor child’s been gone a long time. I felt bad about not bringing her home earlier, but the fact was I was in no shape to deal with her before this. She’s a very good girl. She’s also large, strong, and [...] Rumors of my death are scarcely exaggerated. Home now, and doing much better. I sit in my seventh floor penthouse room watching the most beautiful snowstorm I’ve ever seen. Fat flakes nudge the window, sometimes floating and fluttering, currently driven. I can see no more than maybe a quarter mile. Snow blankets rooftops and rooflines and flocks the trees. Welcome to the Equinox, and the first official (bureaucratic) day [...] You might as well know it, if you don’t already: there’s tension between the writer’s need to connect with his or her fans – through, say, oh, I don’t know, blogs? – and the writer’s need to make money. You can clearly see which end of the dilemma I’ve been coming out on lately. The problem is, [...] |
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