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Despite some reviews I found the Chilli to be fine. Small rooms but perfectly formed. Clean, stylish with friendly and helpful staff. Close to Mrt line and river. Not far from the old town hostel when you're trying to find it.
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The Chilli Hotel is one of those guest houses that are not that easy to find on your own. It's hidden away in an alley. You have to get out of your comfort zone and pass the locals (who are kind!) on your way through to The Chilli Hostel. It's fun!
The room was small. It fits the double bed...
After the taxi driver struggled to find the hotel, me and my girlfriend had to walk down 2 dark smelly alley ways just to find the place. When we arrived we were greeted by a man who hardly spoke any english so was put off slightly at the word go. When we got to the room after walking up what...
As small as we had expected and the reviews that we'd read on here before leaving explaining that the sheets are like oversized towels and complaining about the heat of the shower were totally correct! That is exactly what you get. Yes this place isn't a 5star hotel but what we needed it for it did us just fine. And...
Very small rooms, but clean and good location to explore Bangkok (walking distance from Hua Lamphong station, MRT, pier, Chinatown).
Friendly staff, but you will have to go out to eat as there's no restaurant in the hotel.
Quiet place in a narrow alleyway.
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Friendly staff? Yes, that could be the ONLY saving grace about this hotel. 'Friendly', if you mean always smiling. But smiling and also not understanding English and she was the only staff when I came! So frustrating.
I've been travelling for 30 years now and this is the worst hotel I've been to, within the same category, as far as...
Too expensive for what I got. The toilet is right up to the wall, had to sit sideways. We're heaps of cockroaches in my room, especially under the bed and also one in bed. The road up to Chilli Bangkok Hotel seems very dodgy and is very hard to find.
Only upside is the staff. They are amazing and so...
Very small rooms, but clean and good location to explore Bangkok (walking distance from Hua Lamphong station, MRT, pier, Chinatown). Friendly staff. Quiet place. Good wifi connection. We took airport raillink from Suvarnabhumi airport, and changed to MRT at Makkasan station. Pretty easy and cheap.
After travelling for almost two days, walking down an alleyway at night wasn't ideal but when we were greeted we knew it would be a good stay. Very helpful staff and easily accessible internet is always good. Very close to Hua Lamphong station, which is the main station in Bangkok. Other attractions are easily accessible. Somebody at the desk to...


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Not really. If the contractor is very careful and you are really lucky he might be able to pull them out and then reinstall them after the new cabinets are installed. A lot of this will have to do with how well the counters were installed in the first place. Also, the existing countertops may not line up with the new cabinets exactly in some areas as well as they do now. The better option is to have the cabinets refaced, leaving the boxes and tops in place. Unlless you have deteriorating particle board cabinets you should be able to get a carpenter to do this. If you decide to remove the countertops and install new cabinets factor in new tops and be pleasantly surprised if they can be reinstalled afterall. Realize you probably won't find a contractor willing to gurantee not damaging the tops. If you do, dig in and research him well. He likely doesn't have enough experience.
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Later that evening I showed it to my wife. She wasn't as enthusiastic as I was & reminded me that we didn't do anything, including move here, without examining multiple offers/plans. So, the next day I called on of the designers that I leaped too soon & I wanted to put the brakes on this for a bit to seek other bids. She was very understanding & agreed. So I went back to Angie's List & found two other highly-rated providers.
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This was the costliest of the three proposals. It was also the the highest quality, utilizing real wood to construct the drawer unit, after re-measurement by their carpenter. Both the others rely on just the measurements of their designers. But we determined that the latter is sufficient for a storage unit that no guests would ever see inside a spare room. Both of the other companies use a 3/4" veneer in their construction, which ought to be strong enough to support the items to be stored & we felt confident that the designers measurements would be adequate.
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Do you think that events that included food during our childhood influence choices as we age? I do. I can remember several things from when I was young that have made an impression on me even now.
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With the week I've had, I decided I needed to take some "me" time today. So I went and had my hair cut and my nails done. Ohhhhhhhhhh did it all feel so good and relaxing.
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"My being here is not political. It's emotional because I grew up here. I went to school here. I met my wife here," Mr. Bon Jovi told a crowd of supporters at an event to announce the donation. "And in the days following the storm, when I visited these streets and spoke to the residents, one thought that came to me time and time again was, 'what can I do?'"
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The old Orange Crush in the brown bottle - it was pale yellow - not orange and had orange pulp in the drink. Sold in the 50's and has been gone for many years. [img]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3426/3952198906_0ec91c316f_b.jpg[/img] The old Nu-Grape [link=(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...View Topic - Replies (15)
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So, I was up early today and anxious to have some breakfast. When I pulled my favorite breakfast food from the pantry, I was laid agast! [b]We were nearly out of granola !!!! I know !!!! Horror !!!! Panic !!!![/b] [img]http://i739.photobucket.com/albums/xx35/zerobearpolybear3/Granola/IMG_2033_...View Topic - Replies (1)
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This recipe is a nod to Julia, Alton and Shoeless Ina. Because of unexpected and unavoidable delays during the preparation my belief was that this dish (which I worked on for three nights) would be a wasted effort. However the final result was a pretty good dish - certainly worthy of sharing. a n...View Topic - Replies (10)
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Everyone likes cake and everyone likes cherries. OK I know that is not true for all, but at our house it certainly is an accurate statement. Cherry Cake is an old British tradition, using canned sweet cherries in a light syrup as the fruit component of this easily baked dessert. The basic ...View Topic - Replies (5)
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This is our version of the special beef and wine dish known as Beef Bourguignon. Our version probably varies a little, especially in serving since in this case, our dish is plated over grits. [b]Beef Bourguignon:[/b] You'll need: - 3 pounds - Beef Chuck, or Rump, or in our case beef stew me...View Topic - Replies (16)
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We had about 6 pounds of small cucumbers last weekend and the wife (MHNBPF) made bread and butter pickles for us. They are tasty. Here is how she made them. Need: 6 pounds cucumbers 1 1/2 cups onions (thin sliced) 2 large cloves garlic (minced) 2 quarts ice 4 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon...View Topic - Replies (14)
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Saw this yesterday in Meridian. So serious they called out the fire department? [img]http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/zerobearpolybear2/BBQ%20Truck/Street20view_zpstw48k1l5.jpg[/img] Smoking, MS Fire Department Truck 57? [img]http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/zerobearpolyb...View Topic - Replies (3)
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This may be the best recipe I have posted. About thirty years ago, I belonged (business membership) to the University Club in Jackson, MS. I have no doubt at that time it was the best restaurant in Jackson, with the restaurant at Jackson Country Club a close second. Sadly for most folks, both wer...View Topic - Replies (20)
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[b]Blueberry Lemon Crumbcake [/b] This is get rid of old Blueberrys time of the year at our house. It looks like the bushes will yield an abundant harvest, so we need to get rid of the 2014 crop. [img]http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/zerobearpolybear2/Blueberry%20Crumb%20Cake/IMG_1148...View Topic - Replies (13)
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The wife (MHNBPF) is in Atlanta and I am free to follow my culinary heart. So where do I go? [img]http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/zerobearpolybear2/bologna%20sandwich/IMG_1087_zpspnds2e9e.jpg[/img] Bologna Sandwich Yes, that is a 3/8 inch (slicer setting 14) $1.98 slice of mystery ...View Topic - Replies (11)
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Sadly, they don't say how old it is [img]http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t575/zerobearpolybear2/stuff/old%20brittle_zpsuah1wpzq.jpg[/img] Great price though. :lol:...View Topic - Replies (1)
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Here is a story about a Texas guy who spotted a drone in the air above his property, apparently taking pictures of his house. [link=(http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Drone-Causing-headaches-in-Mansfield-300737221.html)]LINK[/link] So OT Lawyers, if I shot down a drone over my property, what wo...
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One of my favorite old places to eat was a place in Jackson, MS called Nick's. Nick's closed about a year ago, after 30 years in the business of cooking stuff I loved to eat and serving it white table cloth style. At least for a few weeks each spring, Nick would feature fried softshell Crawfish o...View Topic - Replies (0)
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So [link=(http://gardenandgun.com/article/ultimate-barbecue-bracket)]Here is something you can vote on[/link] I have even been to several of these (maybe more then several). Sadly - and I apologize for this - NOLA Smokehose is not in the running. We need a good BBQ place discussion, so ...View Topic - Replies (1)
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They shared the same hole for a year and looked out for each other. Today is their day.
David Kampwerth takes down a photograph he keeps pinned to a bulletin board in his cramped basement study. In the photo, Kampwerth is seen sitting beside two men in their mid-sixties. All three are grinning.
The photograph was taken last summer in Dallas, Georgia. Kampwerth, now 63, went down to Georgia to reconnect with some of the men from his old infantry division: Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th infantry.
"It's taken years, but now that we're retired, we're looking for each other," he says. "It's the band of brothers thing. We shared the same hole for a year and kept each other alive."
The Vietnam War vet began attending military reunions in 2002. His first was held in Reno, Nevada. As evening approached, five men from his squad approached and asked Kampwerth's wife if she knew that her husband was a hero.
"I never figured myself for a hero," he says.
Kampwerth pauses and reaches down to pat the head of one of his hunting dogs.
"It's hard to talk about it," he says. "We were crying just seeing each other, the bond was as strong as ever. What you don't remember, they do."
Kampwerth still lives on the family farm outside of Highland, Illinois where he grew up, one of 16 children. He remembers what it was like in the 1960s as a high school student.
"We felt it was our duty to fight," he says. "Kennedy and LBJ were talking about stopping the spread of communism. A lot of people didn't like LBJ, but I did."
Kampwerth's father served in World War II in Italy, and his father-in-law fought at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dad didn't like talking about the war," he says. "At least not till I came back from Vietnam. Vets can talk to each other because they have that in common."
Kampwerth graduated from high school in 1965. For the next six months, he worked on the farm and on the assembly line at a local electronics plant. But he and his friends were just biding their time. "We knew if we weren't going to college we were going to Nam."
Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, his draft notice arrived in the mail. Kampwerth said goodbye to his mother and father and boarded a Greyhound bus to Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri for basic training. After that, it was off to Ft. Polk for infantry training.
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Kampwerth was quickly promoted to squad leader. His company operated mostly in the Iron Triangle, a Viet Cong stronghold known for its hundreds of miles of tunnels just 25 miles from Saigon. His squad mostly "sealed villages" and provided security for convoys rolling north from Saigon.
It was hazardous work. "We'd get shot at once in a while and hit the ground and laugh like hell we were so nervous."
Kampwerth replaces the photograph on the bulletin board. "When I got there I joined eleven other guys. After a year, there were eight of us left. The rest went home in body bags."
By 1966, the Army had had enough and decided to put an end to the VC's network of tunnels. To that end, allied forces launched three search-and-destroy operations during the dry season of 1966-67: Operation Attleboro, Operation Cedar Falls, and Operation Junction City.
One day in October of 1967, Kampwerth was walking point, leading a patrol down a jungle trail, when they walked into an ambush. The Viet Cong popped out of a tunnel and opened fire from both sides of the trail. "We had to shoot our way out," he recalls. Kampwerth was wounded. A piece of shrapnel from a grenade went through his hand and through the stock of his rifle. Kampwerth, however, kept fighting until his men were out of harm's way. All eight soldiers made it out okay.
"I guess that's why they called me a hero," he laughs.
Cedar Falls lasted 19 days. In the end, 72 Americans and 720 V.C. were killed. The allies never did manage to drive the enemy out of the Iron Triangle nor did they completely destroy the network of tunnels.
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Like most Vietnam vets, Kampwerth still feels a tinge of bitterness at the way he and his brothers were treated when they returned home from the war. That feeling returns when he sees returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans being treated like heroes. "I don't begrudge them anything…" He shakes his head slowly, unable to finish the thought.
"Nobody really understands a veteran unless they are one," he says. "They have no idea what we've been through. So many of those young boys never got to grow up. I saw guys gored by water buffalo, I saw guys get their legs blown off by mines, I saw rescue helicopters crash. But we were a band of brothers. We looked out for each other. That's why we get together today. I can't remember my captains' names, but I will never forget the guys who were with me."
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Comment Re:This is not about science. It's about dependenc (Score 4, Insightful) 330
So out of curiosity how do you think we should develop GMO crops without patents? These things cost billions of dollars in very hard R&D to develop and bring to market. Without a patent then anyone will grow some of your seeds and then sell them next year to compete with your seeds and they had to do none of the work.
If you want to replace this system you must come up with an alternative.
No patents on living organisms would also screw over the biotech industry. What if I make a new tumor supressor gene from scratch that is better than any human gene and would 100% prevent cancer. As soon as I treated the first person someone would just have their DNA read and find the sequence and sell it without doing any of the R&D.
I understand not liking patents on living things but if you want technology developed our current economic system required a profit motive and without that motive the technology won't be created. This is not like computer programming where a few people on no budget can do amazing work and change things. This stuff is insanely expensive and hard to do. Reaction ingredients alone would bankrupt most people.


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Hailey Marie-Rose- 4-17-06, Remynisce Nashae- 9-23-07, Natasha Nycole- 10-12-10, Sophia Elizabeth 2-7-13 & Briella Rose 2-18-13 (adopted niece)!
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I was really nervous too! I hope today brings you a sigh of relief and peace of mind. Let us know how it goes!!! :) Are you going to find out the sex of the baby?
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My level 2 will be with a high risk doc too because of high blood pressure and thyroid issues.
Best of luck today. I am sure everything is fine. I had my level 2 last Friday and got good news and the sex. Turned into a great day. I was sick to death and my appt was in the morning. Try to not to worry too much, I know that's very hard. Keep us posted.
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"Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy."
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"Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy."
–Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By
For a week now, I've been waking up around 5am. Sitting to meditate for a few minutes, letting the dog out back to pee and then sneaking out front to go for a walk alone around my neighborhood. Not walking, mind you–this is not exercise. Sometimes I go in flip flops. Sometimes I go without a bra. I'm taking a noticing walk. To hear the birds. To feel the surprising breeze; in a few hours, it will hit 100 degrees and I could suffer heat stroke in the car ride to Target, say. When I get back, I write in my notebook at the kitchen table and look up the names of plants in a book I got at the library. I read poetry. Am thrilled by lines like these:
"How is it, such wealthy redemption/ in a fence post, a rusting stove?…On the earth, feet receive direct knowledge… Cattle raise their heads–they are listeners,/ as I become the deepest listener/ where there is least to hear." — Naomi Shihab Nye, from At Otto's Place (in Words Under the Words)
Eventually, my children wake up and come down for a bowl of cereal. I make my bed. Let the dog in. His walk will come later. In the evening, when it's cool again.
I've tried at various points in my life to wake up early like this. But usually the effort is shrouded in anxiety. I'm waking up to exercise or to write. To be productive. It doesn't last. Now I'm just doing it to live. I'm waking up to pay attention. There are no real rules. Just a pattern I like. And for once it feels sustainable.
I began last week after realizing how unhappy I'd been feeling. It was strange, because there was no real reason for it. Life is good, overall. My usual anxieties—money & relationships—are fine. Great, even. I've been writing daily. Feeling healthy. So what, then? Why did I feel like I was being dragged through my life rather than in conscious control of it? I'm still not entirely sure. But I happened upon this post about habits, which led me to this podcast featuring the poet Mary Oliver, whom I adore. And she inspired me to take back noticing. To not let the fact that I live in a scorching desert trick me into never going outside. Into not "let[ting] the soft animal of [my] body love what it loves."
Every morning presents some miracle: a hummingbird scooping her head to feed on the red yucca. Enormous black bees swarming the blooming desert candle. Today, a hairpin among the sidewalk's fallen pine needles.
The hour of fulfillment is buried in years of patience." –Mary Oliver
I've been unsettled by several things of late: the number of women in my online courses who identify 50 Shades of Grey as their favorite book, for example. Or the fact that I was ID'ed at Target for buying Elmer's Rubber Cement Glue. Apparently you have to be over 18 to get your hands on that stuff. Probably some kind of #huffresponsibly campaign. Who knew? And then there's good old Seasonal Affective Disorder, sapping the energy I normally reserve for things like making my kids' lunches or putting on a bra. Guys, I'm S.A.D.
But then today I had the emotional energy to do some laundry. Broad City is back on television. I meditated this morning. Spontaneously (somewhat irresponsibly?) booked a spring break beach condo that allows dogs. And after a week of avoidance, I'm going to actually work on my novel today. In other words, the Groundhog was wrong. Spring is coming early this year.
This is an embarrassing writing selfie I took last year at an outdoor café in Cambridge. It's part of my process, which goes something like this: Sit down to write, get up and make tea. Sit down to write, check my email real quick. Sit down to write, take a selfie of myself pretending to write. Surprisingly, after a long string of days like this, I actually manage to get an entire narrative down on the page.
But I'm going out of order. I volunteered to follow Audrey Camp on the Writing Process Blog Tour. Audrey is my Postmasters Podcast co-host, a phenomenally poetic essayist/fiction writer, and basically one of my favorite friends of all time. You can read her process post here. So:
What am I working on?
Short stories. I'm writing new ones and revising old ones and trying to imagine them fitting together in some kind of collection. This fall when I hit the alone-time jackpot and both my daughters head off to school, I plan on revising a novel I drafted last year about a young girl with epilepsy growing up in rural Montana.
How does my work differ from others in its genre?
Mostly, I just pillage material from stories my mom tells me. And since I can safely assume no one else is listening to my mom's stories, it makes mine different. (Love you, Mom!)
Why do I write what I do?
Pam Houston, in her book A Little More About Me, says: "There is only one story of our lives and we tell it over and over again, in a thousand different disguises, whether we know it or not." So I guess I'm just getting that story out.
How does your writing process work?
As I mentioned at the outset, I'm a distracted writer. It's difficult for me to write that necessarily terrible first draft. To convince myself to not give up writing entirely and learn to make scented soaps to sell at the farmer's market instead. But if I keep showing up at the notebook or the computer, despite my many tea & toast breaks, something very satisfying emerges—usually a year or so later, but it emerges. I send it out to a million journals to see if someone will publish it, give myself the day off, and then it's right back to that beautifully painful beginning.
Up next on the tour:
Yasmin Ramirez at And Then…
Sarah Shaffer at Everything Rhymes,
& my lovely poet-friend, Andrea Beltran.
Last October, at the all-male Priesthood session of the Mormon church's General Conference, a group of 200 women stood in line to ask admission; one by one, they were turned away. This time, the church has anticipated the group—releasing an official letter asking them to keep their "protests" outside the walls of Temple Square. Religious blogger Jana Riess effectively sums up my feelings on the matter here. In my view, these women are not picketing protesters, but fellow-Mormons respectfully asking for more. In a few weeks, they will quietly stand at the door and knock again, knowing they will be turned away. Think of that for a moment. These women are courageous, regardless of one's position on the issue. And for my part, I admire & support them.
For me, this is the face of the Ordain Women movement:
When I look at this photo I think: what if despite precedence and patriarchy, the usher at the door last October would have instead opened it? Would have instead simply said: Yes. Come in. You are welcome here.
Wouldn't that have been beautiful?
*This photo popped up in a search in connection with the Exponent blog, though I couldn't find exact image attribution.
My husband took our girls to his parents' place last Friday and I spent the weekend alone—reading, writing, watching really great films I knew Dave wouldn't want to see (Her and Before Midnight, both of which I'm still thinking about days later).
Sunday morning, I was feeling energized and adventurous and decided to take a walk along a nearby trail I kept hearing about. I followed the signs to the place, parked, and then spent 20 minutes looking for the trailhead. I couldn't find it. I had no one to ask. There was no one around to cooly follow. Dave wasn't answering his phone. Google searches failed me.
The map near the parking lot inferred that I need only step forward to begin. But there was no where to step. It was one of those moments where I felt like the world's dumbest person. Across the arroyo, on a wide and straight road leading to a water tank, I saw a retired couple walking their four dogs. And, determined to walk somewhere, I drove across and began up the hill, thinking that all dummies like me are destined for the old-people paths. Still, it was a nice enough walk. And a while later, I saw a biker in a neon yellow shirt crossing ahead. The paths—the one I had wanted and the one I was on—intersected. I followed the former back down and finally found the trailhead.*
I'm a believer in life's intersections.
*For the record, the trail began on an unmarked dirt path next to a water tower that very much gave off a "no trespassing" vibe. So, not the world's dumbest person. At least, that's what I tell myself.
Write every day. Duh. Of course I mean to write every day—I always mean to. But usually, I don't. Usually, I delude myself into believing that my guilt for not writing somehow counts as partial writing credit. (Spoiler alert: it doesn't).
The other day, though, I read this anecdote about Jerry Seinfeld telling an up-and-coming comic to mark off on a yearly calendar each day he composes jokes so that he could see his chain of progress. His advice, put simply: "Then just don't break the chain." For whatever reason (probably something to do with my insatiable urge to check things off, thereby giving my life the illusion of quantifiable meaning), this triggered a serious response in me.
I printed off a yearly calendar and decided to write 1000 words every day. So far, my chain of X's is unbroken. I'm on day 21. Most of it isn't pretty. I mean, this stuff is in for some serious revision. But the words are there. Existing in the world. And every day I know what lies ahead of me. I'm not sure if it's the chain or the word count, but I'm onto a very healthy compulsion here.
I don't like subscribing to magazines because they end up piling up on the back of my toilet (and sometimes falling into it), unread. And I can't bring myself to throw them out because they look an awful lot like books and throwing away books is evil and I'm typically too disorganized to donate them to the library and also, there's the chance that I might one day read an article in one of these magazines. Usually I never do, but there's the chance.
Last night, I took advantage of such a chance. In the bath. Sometimes, for 30-min increments, my life is really heavenly.
Anyway, I read the recent Writer's Chronicle interview of Joan Wickersham. She had so much wisdom to offer. And now I want to read her new novel The News from Spain, which I had heard good things about and already wanted to read, but now I really want to read it.
I'll leave you with some of her sage writer-parent wisdom, for those of you who, like me, rarely get around to reading magazines:
"I'm glad I had two [children], but you know that cliché about doing it all? I think you can do it all, but you just have to do it sequentially. I wish I had understood that when I was younger. I spent a lot of time beating myself up about not writing. I wish I had just accepted that that's how it is right now. It won't always be that way."
My friend, Audrey, and I came up with a brilliant idea: Let's pretend we haven't graduated our MFA program by interviewing every awesome writer we know.
So far, so good. Check it out!
We are living in an era of screen addiction and capitalist pornography. As a species, we are squandering the exalted gifts of consciousness, losing our capacity to pay attention, to imagine the suffering of others. You are a part of all this. It involves you. This is the hard labor we're trying to perform: convincing strangers to translate our specks of ink into stories capable of generating rescue.
–Steve Almond, This Won't Take but a Minute, Honey
I'm pretty sure the only way to get a copy of this book is to pay Steve Almond cash for it. So my advice is to track him down immediately. You won't be sorry.
I love my work with a love that is frantic and perverted, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt that scratches his belly. Sometimes, when I am empty, when words don't come, when I find I haven't written a single sentence after scribbling whole pages, bogged down in a swamp of despair, hating myself and blaming myself for this demented pride that makes me pant after a chimera. A quarter of an hour later, everything has changed; my heart is pounding with joy.
–Gustave Flaubert
Lately, I've been thinking about one of my first mentors, Diane Freund (pronounced Friend), who died of brain cancer in 2010. And I guess I want other people to think about her, too. So, here she is.
My dear friend, Robbie, introduced us at a small writing conference in Southeast Arizona, where Diane was a frequent presenter. I wasn't actually attending the full conference that year. I'd had a baby the week before and had slipped away for an hour or so to hear Diane speak.
Later, she agreed to work with me on my novel, offering what turned out to be two years of invaluable critique and encouragement. Her own first novel, Four Corners—the frightening, beautifully-written story of a young girl's life after her mother is admitted to a mental hospital—won the Pirate's Alley/Falkner Prize but was ultimately overshadowed by the events of September 11, 2001, four days prior to the book's publication.
Still, Four Corners eventually aided her in receiving an NEA fellowship. When I wrote to offer congratulations, she gave me this:
This was the third time over the course of six years that I'd applied. When I was denied the grant in 2005, it came on the same day that I was diagnosed with cancer, so it seemed especially hard to receive that news. Now I realize that it wouldn't have been a good time. I was sick and heart sick. This is just to say that I know how hard it is to be passed over, but you must persist against all odds. I am certain that with your incredible talent, you'll one day be recognized for your achievements, that the stars will align just so, over your house.
During our first interaction, moments after we'd only just met, she gave me a book—a guide to writing poetry. A gift. She made me feel important. Special; of course, this was her true gift—she made everyone feel special.
At her memorial service, a familiar gathering inside a Bisbee restaurant, I looked around at her friends: a group of poets and artists and activists, each one hunted out from beneath the rocks of this remote small-town cluster in the desert. Diane's power was drawing out beauty from every well.
*To donate to the Diane E. Freund Memorial Writing Celebration Fund—offering financial assistance to writers unable to afford the referenced writing conference—click here and specify Diane's name in the donation scholarship space.
Outside Porter Station on my way to AWP.
A week filled with blizzards, books, and the best kind of friends!