You better listen to the radio
June 12, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I’m not being bossy, I’m quoting Elvis Costello.
Reading my various frantic bits, you’d never guess, but I do have a day job. And today—well, actually a couple of weeks ago, but airing today—I was on the radio.
Fun, in a slightly disembodied kind of way.
On my list of small anomalies of...
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Down to Zero
June 08, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Way back in February when I booked our now rapidly approaching Alaska trip, I was sure as shootin’ I’d have a couple of juicy writing assignments under my belt to finance this thing by the actual time of departure, if not a book deal.
In between then and now, the economy tanked and tanked and...
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Worst. Blogger. Ever.
May 28, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
How bad is it? It’s this bad: my teenaged child emailed me the other day from the “contact me” section of my own web said and said it was lame that I haven’t been blogging. That bad.
I know I’ve been gone a long, long time. I wasn’t kidnapped—I was run over, mauled, spit out, and left for dead...
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Will You Please Be Quiet Please?
April 06, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
It’s weird to be pitching a book about falling in love with America again when in fact I am less and less in love each day with our economic system of government. It’s kind of like going to a marriage counselor when you already have one foot out the door.
Poor Swellville is in such dire...
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Testify, people!
April 02, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Six months in the making—proof positive that writing something in random sporadic bursts is never a good idea— my article on Asperger’s and IT is finally live.
Click over there and run up my page count, will ya?
