Last week in my moms’ group we discussed green parenting, which motivated me to get rid of my Avent bottles and buy glass and BPA-free ones. Really I already own some Born Free bottles, but need to buy more and a bunch of other crap to go with them. Although an article about green parenting [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 29, 2008
Update, Part I
As usual, I am way behind on transferring photos from my camera, so no pictures today. Last Friday I skipped swim class and took Shea to Little Farm at Tilden Park instead. He was so tired he fell asleep on the way there and slept during the first 20 minutes that I walked around the [...]
May 16, 2008
Just chillin’
When it’s 102 in Berkeley, I don’t sweat it. I just chill out with my homeboy Elvis on the couch at moms’ group.
May 15, 2008
Is bigger better when it comes to advances?
I’m fascinated by the Salon.com article that suggests that getting a big advance for your first book deal could ruin your career as a writer. If you’re a writer, you probably know someone, or have heard of someone, who got a huge advance, didn’t make the advance and then was blackballed by the publishing industry. [...]
May 13, 2008
Happy Fifth-Month Birthday!
Shea turned five months today, and with Mother’s Day this past weekend, I took some time to reflect on all that’s changed during these past five months. Four and a half months ago, I wasn’t writing, wasn’t exercising, wasn’t reading much either. Day was night and night was day and I was spending as much [...]
May 13, 2008
If you’re a writer, read this!
Strangely, I was discussing the pros and cons of getting a large advance on a first book with my husband last night, and then someone sent this article to me today. It’s an old but fantastic Salon.com feature about the underbelly of the publishing industry, written by an an anonymous mid-list author. Fascinating. Depressing. Edifying. [...]
May 2, 2008
Pretty and smart? Impossible!
Speaking of blog/books, Jade Park, who inadvertently got me doing yoga again (I did most of the series last night) introduced me to a fantabulous blog by a former contestant of America’s Next Top Model, Elyse Sewell. It’s a lot of fun to read and I only wish that blogs had been around when I [...]
May 2, 2008
Stuff publishers like
Speaking of book deals, the popular blog Stuff White People Like introduced to me by Luna (which is a funny blog if you haven’t seen it, but should be titled, What Liberal White People Like was sold to Random House for “more than $350,000.” Those of us who spend years crafting narratives (yes, even memoirs [...]
