Shea and I joined a French playgroup last week. We’re going to miss this week because we’ll be camping, but we’re meeting every Friday afternoon. My French isn’t as good as it used to be (it’s been 15 years since I lived in France!), but I’ve kept it up pretty well by tutoring it. And [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 29, 2009
Done (no -ish), but Biting Nails
Well, I guess I’m done. The revisions could go on forever, of course. If I keep giving it to people to critique, they will keep finding things they think I should change, but I find many of their comments to be personal preferences and not necessary changes to the book. My general rule is that [...]
June 25, 2009
Grotto Wins Best of the Bay Award!
San Francisco Magazine awarded the SF Writers Grotto a Best of the Bay award for “Lit lessons”:
Budding novelists will be in good hands at the Grotto’s and the Writing Salon’s well-respected courses—but when the voices in your head grow too chatty to stay between covers, put them to work at the New Play Institute, which [...]
June 24, 2009
Feeling really fat and lazy
A follow-up to my last post: Things a pregnant woman DOES like to hear: “You hardly look pregnant at all!” “You’re six months already? You only look three or four!” “I can’t tell you’re pregnant at all from behind,” etc. For some reason it’s okay to tell a pregnant woman she’s huge, but not a [...]
June 18, 2009
What someone said to me today
“You’re not going to have the baby until September, and you’re already HUUUUGE.”
Um, not exactly what a pregnant woman wants to hear, but at least she was honest!
June 17, 2009
Take the California Budget Challenge
Think you can run this state better than Schwarzenegger and our state senators and assembly members? Think you have a better solution to balancing the budget than closing our state parks? Take The Budget Challenge and find out!
June 15, 2009
Cravings
I get these weird cravings out of nowhere. Two nights ago I so desperately wanted some thick gooey chocolate that I made cherry cream cheese brownies even though I was so tired I could hardly stand. This afternoon I desperately wanted a Coke (and got one). Right now I want peanut brittle (but don’t have [...]
June 13, 2009
The California Budget Fiasco
Californians are rightly outraged by Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal, which includes the closing of 220 of California’s 279 (nearly 80%) state parks, 70 of them near the Bay Area, including many of my favorites: Big Basin Redwoods near Santa Cruz (where I’ll be camping for the Fourth of July), Butano Redwoods (where I’m scheduled to camp [...]
June 13, 2009
More on the Digital Revolution
Some articles I came across since I wrote my last post:
Is the Kindle evil?.
The $199 E-book Reader.
The Cooler Reader?.
Google to Sell E-books?.
Scribd Signs Deal with Simon & Schuster.
June 4, 2009
The Digital Revolution
George Consagra, the COO of Scribd.com came to the Grotto for lunch today. If you don’t know what Scribd (pronouncd “Scribbed”) is, it started two years ago as a YouTube for documents, and twelve days ago transformed into an iTunes for documents as members became able to name their price material they uploaded. Documents range [...]
