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Nov.27.2012
Lit Camp is the Bay Area's first juried writers' conference. It's a joint venture between two of San Francisco's most respected literary organizations - Litquake and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto - and will feature representatives from all the city's top literary players, including...
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Nov.08.2011
And hear about it. I'm in the midst of organizational change at work (and doing my best to be part of the downsized so I have the chance to take some time off to write) and the company I work for has a website on how to navigate change effectively. This is a lovely idea on it's own....
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Jun.15.2011
I have a short piece of absurd writing up at Prime Number Magazine. Prime Number is a really neat, new online literary magazine produced by some great people. If you are looking for a new place to send your work, I highly recommend adding them to your list! This piece was originally written to...
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May.04.2011
I'm actually taking writing for free one step further: I pay to do it. I pay with my soul at my day job, I pay to attend writers conferences, I pay with time apart from loved ones. I spend concentration, fits of obsession, and available evenings on it. It sometimes feels like a co-dependent...
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Feb.14.2011
Happy heart day all!!
I think I am just now finally escaping a karmic curse I accrued in the eighth grade. I had a boyfriend during that auspicious portion of Jr. High for, oh, maybe 8 weeks. (That's like 2 years in grown up time) Unfortunately I was too shy to actually talk to him. And way too...
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Feb.10.2011
Well, it’s perhaps cliché and will no doubt be blogged more eloquently elsewhere, but hands down the most important thing I’ve ever found was my Self.
It wasn’t easy. I was raised to place my value in what I could do for others and took that to mean I wasn’t even allowed to have a Self. That...
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Feb.03.2011
My short story, Salsa, is now up at Pif Magazine. This is very exciting news for me. For starters, it’s just a really cool place to get published. Not only does it have some great work in it, with a nice look and feel, but one of the beauties of a free online literary magazine is that you can...
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Oct.08.2010
I and some lovely friends are reading during Phase II of LitCrawl as part of the Bikram Writing event. If you are unfamiliar with the crawl, it's a tremendous good time with hundreds of authors reading over the course of 3.5 hours. It happens TOMORROW night, October 9th at 7:15 at the Beauty Bar...
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Oct.07.2010
Intimacy and Isolation Go on a Date
(further ruminations on Erik Erikson's Stages of Development....as Fiction Characters!)
At the movies that night, Intimacy wanted the seats whose arms went up, because they “are so much more couch-like and cozy.” Isolation wanted a seat between...
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Oct.04.2010
October is my very favorite month of the year in San Francisco, and not least of all because of Litquake. The week-long literary festival is underway and there have already been quite a few highlights. From a delightful (and Free! thank you) opening night party at 111 Minna to visual art and...
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Sep.03.2010
It is Friday of a three day weekend: could anything be more promising? I haven't even left the office yet and I already feel filled with happy anticipation of time away from it. I have no travel plans, in fact very few plans at all, but even that feels like a luxury. The two to-do items on my...
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Sep.02.2010
I used to get so excited when this was the writing prompt in my elementary school classes. Not because I did really interesting things during Summer, in fact my summers were quite ordinary. But because this is always how I’ve thought about life (perhaps because of precisely these types of writing...
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Aug.05.2010
Every year since I became serious about being a writer I’ve made sure to devote some time and money to at least one event, be it an MFA or a writers conference. This year however, I decided I wanted a real vacation and went to Mazatlan instead. It was divine and money well spent, but I still have...
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Aug.04.2010
Yesterday I received the news that my grandmother, Bess Rice, has entered hospice care. She has Alzheimer’s and her body is failing her. The disease has taken a lot from her, but there have been many moments when her spunky spirit and feisty sense of humor emerges. I’m so thankful for those...
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Jul.28.2010
My earliest memory that I know is a true memory and not a photograph-induced one is of my Aunt “breaking into” the backdoor, which for some reason was in the bedroom I shared with my brother. In my child brain, she was an Adult, and therefore certainly doing something appropriate and grown up. ...
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