Lisa RiveroThroughout the day, as my body—still on Pacific Standard Time—woke reluctantly to a Central Time Zone day, as I helped my son pack and took him to his dorm for the spring semester, as I taught two classes and drove home slowly in falling snow and enjoyed a tuna dinner with my husband, I kept …
Does the thought of speaking about your writing excite you? Or terrify you?
I love it when good things happen to good people. My friend Hannah’s blog, Alimental, a truly delightful mix of candid, fresh writing and beautiful, mouth-watering photos is currently featured on WordPress’s Freshly Pressed (look for the picture of cookies)! 😀 I’m not at all surprised. Now I know two Freshly Pressed friends. Last summer, …
A few days still remain to enter agent Bree Ogden’s contest to win The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan! In her words: “Be creative, be ostentatious, be personal, be truthful, be gritty. Impress me.”
I thought I knew what he was going to say: … the vending machines. Would you please watch my laptop? Yesterday I was sitting in a college library, waiting for my husband and doing some work on my laptop. I was in the “Please Talk” section of the library, sunk in a huge comfy chair. …