Finally. I just completed my first full length novel. I feel awesome. I sent it to EC and now I’m celebrating with champagne and a wonderful dinner cooked by my dear friend, Vanessa. I’m in San Jose. My kid is…

I’ve decided to take pictures and blog about whenever I’m wearing this outfit.

So we went out in the Assault Vehicle this past weekend. I’ll admit it was kinda fun, although there were a few…

Every year my friend Sue has a Summer Solstice party at her Bed and Breakfast. People are encouraged to bring a drum and all the kids dance around the fire pit. It was a blast, as usual.

The soon to…

We’re having our kid baptized on Sunday. Although neither Manroot or I are what I’d call practicing Christians, we were both raised believing in God and our kid goes to a preschool run by a Lutheran church.

The pastor called…

Ode to a Million Notebooks

34 years.
Stacks of unfinished journals, notebooks and scraps,
backs of envelopes.
People who don’t exist,
sketched on lined paper, like chalk outlines.
Like myself, just scribbles.

Empty bottles
…

I woke up around 3AM his morning, as I often do, and realized that it has been seven years since I left graduate school. I wasn’t thinking about it a nostalgic kind of way, though. But before I get into…

Can someone please tell me why I cannot find a decent strapless bra? I mean, with all the bizarre inventions out there you’d think the fine people designing lingerie could come up with some sort of garment to hold…