2008 March

Entries from March 2008

Grandmother, tell me again about the year you fooled your editor, your publisher, and the New York Times

March 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

“There is no greater sin in war than ignorance. Never speak or act on anything you aren’t 100 percent sure of, or someone will expose your mistake and take you down for it.”
– ‘Margaret B. Jones’ [Margaret Seltzer], quoted in Michiko Kakutani’s review of Love or Consequences.
I’ve been frantic with post-travel recovery and a huge [...]

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Tags: Writing

My Travel Schedule, March through June 2008

March 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

This is a bread-and-butter post to update people on my travel schedule for the next several months. Are you attending any of these events? Let’s do coffee/breakfast/lunch/dinner/cocktails!(At some point in this schedule I’m also taking a long weekend with Sandy to celebrate her birthday. We’re not sure where or when, but probably New York or [...]

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Honestly, I didn’t invent this

March 5th, 2008 · 13 Comments

candle salad
Originally uploaded by Ellbeecee

And I have absolutely nothing to say about it. It’s just a salad. In a cookbook for kids. So stop laughing! (Thanks to Twitter friend ellbeecee for the tipoff.)
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Top Ten Joys of the Creative Nonfiction Conference 2008

March 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

(N.b. I have a Flickr set tagged CNF2008, and I also set up a mailing list for anyone interested who attended.)
I’m doing a turn-and-burn — touch down, refuel, take off with afterburners blazing to teach “Writing for the Web” for NEFLIN on Wednesday — but I wanted to share my top ten favorite things [...]

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Tags: Writing

Breaking a few eggs

March 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Local eggs
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian
Last week I paid four dollars for a dozen eggs, and that was an insanely good bargain. They weren’t just any old eggs; they were fresh eggs from a local farm, and aside from being almost too unbearably pretty to crack open — they were pastel blue and [...]

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