Grotto News

If you haven’t read this week’s New Yorker yet, there’s a fabulous article about knives by Grottoite Todd Oppenheimer.
Also:
The SF Writers’ Grotto is pleased to announce that beginning in
January, we will be offering classes for students who are serious
about writing. These will be on-going weekly, and single weekend
classes, and will cover everything from memoir to [...]

Done

It’s done. My book is done. Well, sorta. Kinda. I’m not happy with the first chapter, so that doesn’t feel done and won’t until I get it the way I want it. But I can’t figure out what to do with it, and meanwhile I’m two weeks late getting my book to my readers, so [...]

Deadline?

Almost there! Read the entire 417 pages out loud this week and marked them up again. Now I need to make those changes in the computer, make a few changes to a chapter that was critiqued by my writers’ group this week, figure out what to do with the prologue (it still needs some work) [...]

GOBAMA!

So I didn’t get a chance to blog after the election, but I was on Twitter and Facebook all throughout, updating my status with things like “Yeah, baby! (Ohio).” That morning, we let our nanny fold clothes while we took Shea to the polling place down the street. For us Californians, it was an exciting [...]

Other updates

In other news, we’re at the river this weekend and fortunately Martin’s watching Shea because i came down with a stomach flu last night—chills, nausea, stomach cramps, etc. I had to go in the hot tub to warm up because I was sitting here with the heat up to 70 and shivering. Feeling the nausea [...]

Shea update

Shea can do “milk” and “more” in sign language now, and although it seems like he can do “bye-bye,” I’m not totally convinced since he does the same sign for milk and says, “ba ba” both times. I think our conversations go like this:
Us: “Bye, Shea! Bye Bye!”
Shea: “Sure I’ll have some milk!”
He is getting [...]

Halloween Madness

We had a crazy, wonderful Halloween weekend between taking Shea out trick-or-treating for the first time (for Unicef!), attending our friend J&C’s wedding that same day and hosting a baby shower for the same couple Saturday night. It was total madness and tons of fun. The first highlight was when the officiant at the courthouse [...]

Deadline—not happening

There’s just no way I’m going to finish my book by Wednesday. I hate missing deadlines, but I figure as long as I keep doing my hours, I’m getting closer to my goal. Since my tutoring has dropped off to one student (I’ve lost several students due to attrition and two last week because of [...]