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Now Sit Right Back
Something’s up. Twice in the past week, I’ve done something I rarely do. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I did it, before last Thursday. I watched a TV show. Last Thursday found me scrolling through Comcast on Demand for Wolf Hall. Last night, I went to iTunes and downloaded The Americans. For many of you, this may seem either inconsequential (=dull) or too little, too late. I’ve never watched Breaking Bad, Homeland, Girls, or Downton Abbey; I’m hopelessly out of it when lunchtime conversation turns to Game of Thrones or House of Cards. I’ve heard of most … Continue reading
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Tagged Alias Smith and Jones, All in the Family, Brady Bunch, Breaking Bad, cable TV, Downton Abbey, Fractured Fairy Tales, Game of Thrones, Gilligan's Island, Girls, Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes, Homeland, House of Cards, Kate & Allie, Land of the Lost, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lindsey Crittenden, Love American Style, M*A*S*H*, Mad Men, Murphy Brown, novel-writing, Partridge Family, revision, Roald Dahl, Room 222, Run Joe Run, television, The Americans, The Odd Couple, Three's Company, TV, Wolf Hall, writing
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Welcome Back
The holiday cookies are baked and the wreath’s hanging on the door. Sort of. I’ve baked holiday cookies once, maybe twice in my life. It’s not that I don’t like holiday cookies. I love holiday cookies—at least most of them. Gingerbread men are cute, with icing outlining their chubby little feet and hands, even if you crack your teeth on those little silver balls. I adore butter cookies, especially shaped into wreaths. Even typing the words “Pecan Sandies” makes me drool. But if you stop by our house this month, you’re not likely to be offered a plate of home-baked … Continue reading
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Tagged Audrey Ferber, Benjamin Moore, Drop Dead Gorgeous, family photos, holiday cookies, holiday visitors, Ilsa Brink, interior painting, Lindsey Crittenden, Orange-Pecan Ice Box Cookies, Pecan Sandies, Poets & Writers, revising, The Water Will Hold You, Vibrant Blush, website design, Writer's Chronicle, writers' group, writing
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Excitement, please
It’s that time of year for making resolutions or—as some prefer—setting intentions. Don’t worry. I’m not leading into a list of what I hope to achieve in 2013, at least not in terms of pages written, pieces published, books read, or pounds lost. I am, however, going to write about what I want more of in 2013: Enthusiasm. I have a complicated relationship with the emotion, dating to an early humiliation on the schoolyard involving bunny ears. Every since Halloween 1967, I’ve had to be careful, lest I show too much enthusiasm and wind up scarred by ridicule. I’ll spare … Continue reading
Posted in agents, craft, reading, spirituality, teaching, writing
Tagged "Roman Fever, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Constance Hale, costume parties, costumes, enthusiasm, grammar, Halloween, Joan Didion, Lindsey Crittenden, New Year's resolutions, passion, Phuc Tran, schoolyard humiliation, subjunctive, TED talk, verb tense, Vex Hex Smash Smooch, writing
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A Post On Any Other Day…
*There will be no post next Friday, April 20. The next post will appear 4/27/12. (Coincidence. Really.) Today, for the first time since starting this blog almost a year ago, I’m posting on Saturday. Not just that, but Saturday afternoon. What’s happened? Has all my discipline gone out the window? Let’s back up. I started this blog almost a year ago, during Meghan Ward’s class on social media, offered through the S.F. Writers’ Grotto. I wrote my first blog for a Friday, and ever since, I’ve kept to that schedule, channeling Meghan’s advice about a regular schedule yielding continuity of … Continue reading
Tryouts
I’ve always loved the form of the personal essay. As a teenager, I loved reading Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines, largely because of the personal essays in their pages by writers such as Mary Cantwell. A Google search leads me to a blog called EAT, “a tribute to Mary Cantwell” by Julia Reed, which mentions Cantwell’s columns for Mademoiselle as being about the pleasures of meals taken alone or with family and friends—but that’s not how I remember them. I wasn’t particularly interested in food in high school, when I consumed Cantwell’s essays, but I do recognize Reed’s appreciation of Cantwell’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Best American Essays, braided essay, Brenda Miller, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction classes, essais de Montaigne, essayer, Glamour, Glen Online, Julia Reed, Lindsey Crittenden, lyrical essay, Mademoiselle, Mary Cantwell, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, personal essays, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant, the hermit-crab essay, UC Berkeley Extension, Walt Whitman, West Village, women's magazines, writing
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