While I look for work, I continue to eat, drive, watch TV and read. Money is becoming tighter; I started to look for ways to save, ways to cut back.This is what I was doing: not buying extras, like dinners out, books or a stereo for my iPhone; buying cheaper …
My family does not talk about the ugly things. A list of subjects I have rarely heard mentioned: throwing up, popping pimples, farting, cleaning up after a sick loved one, going to the bathroom, having a pelvic exam, descriptions of cruelty. In the same way, we don’t discuss the darkest …
I was in Tallahassee a dozen years ago, and there I met a woman who was a writer like me, but also a mother. She told me two unrelated stories: one was about the man she had been living with who turned out to be violent to her and to …
Think about your character’s driving characteristic. What animal might represent that characteristic? Write a scene from a dream your character might have featuring that animal.
I listened to a story on NPR about the new owners of the Playtime Drive-in. The property had been sold to a church, and the story made a big deal about the theater’s “bad old days” as a XXX movie theater. The church was having a grand film-burning of all …
I am reliably informed by an email I received via Careerbuilder that I am “perfectly fit” for a position as a warehouse associate. As I have always aspired to be a warehouse associate, I read on. I was really excited because there didn’t seem to be any impediment: I’m a …