Posted in Living on Oct 17th, 2005 2 Comments »
On Saturday I took a couple hours off the writing to go sailing with my friends aboard Moonstruck… Very light winds, windex spinning from not knowing where to point, general doldrums. So we dropped the jib, fired up the engine, and putzed across the Clear Lake channel toward the Houston Ship Channel where there looked […]
Posted in Living, Writing on Oct 12th, 2005 4 Comments »
For the past three days I’ve been practicing (as best I can) “mindfulness,” which is a form of meditation where you pay attention to what your mind is doing while you’re doing other things.
I’ve learned, for example, that I like to dredge up past resentments while painting or sanding, and replay them in my head. […]
Posted in Bombshells, Living on Oct 11th, 2005 No Comments »
And in so many ways….
Hurricane Rita caused residual problems with Dorothea: she’s just now getting her new canvas bimini roof over the aft deck (at least we have a stainless steel frame we can stretch a tarp over), and the water coming onto the aft deck has been phenomenal. I spent much of yesterday fighting […]
Posted in Writing on Oct 7th, 2005 6 Comments »
Came across this today while browsing news.
In a review of In Her Shoes, Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times writes:
One could wonder here why light novels by male authors are called fiction, while light novels by women are called chick lit, but that’s the wrong question, too.
And I had to say, “Yeah. What’s up with […]
Posted in Living on Oct 5th, 2005 4 Comments »
…Happy Birthday to me!
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