Colin and I like to travel a lot. When we were overseas, you could find us in a foreign country on any given weekend.
Our latest adventure, to the Dominican Republic, was thanks to my brother-in-law Jay and my sister Mary. This was their trip, and they asked us to come along.
Mary and I have traveled [...]
What a Writer Looks Like
by me
She stares hard at the screen, hands clenched.
Just one index finger poised over the arrow key and
One fist gripped at her mouth.
She reads herself.
His ears are wrapped in something – maybe Mozart, maybe Britney
Name tag dangling from a shoulder
Pen rushing on the paper, running downhill since the meditative
“Go” was given. [...]
“Breakfast in Amsterdam”
March 3, 2007
I got down with my pen and laptop at the 2008 NY Writers’ Coalition Write-a-Thon yesterday. Here is a sample of some bits I wrote–the RESULTS of the Send me a Writing Idea Competition! (selected by independent judge C. Phillips).
Runner Up - T. Mallie!
haiku for T. Mallie
lace panties annoy
the sort of girl who prefers
paper to [...]
Someone whispered to me this:
Today is a one-time deal, Elizabeth. Offer expires at midnight.
It’s days before the anniversary of one year in Connecticut and the leaves are still busting out. The forsythia does not bloom forever.
I can’t tell you about tomorrow, but for today, I am cashing in on the deal.
John Brandon, the great governor of the Warrington Hotel, was the first English person to truly confuse me with a question.
“You alright?” he’d ask, his voice rising up lightly. He was from East London, proper Cockney. His “you alright” was was one of the few things I could actually understand him saying.
Except that I didn’t.
“Yessss…,” [...]