So I’m sitting here making up my weekend supply list. Here’s what’s on it: books to sell buttons fliers copy to read from (duh!) origami paper directions for craft directions TO camp sample cyclop’s eye sharpies camera DVDs of Big Bang Theory* Everything else that I’m currently forgetting *Those are for Trish the Dish (aka:… Continue reading Surprise Lake Camp, ready or not, here I come!
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Magic Trick
Can I show your friend here, a magic trick, he says to my husband. He’s old, frail, his voice so thin it sounds like it traveled from Ireland through a tin can. Of course, I say. With shaking hands he folds a dollar bill over and over until when he unfolds it… Continue reading Magic Trick
Daughter of Chaos Cover Reveal
Jen McConnel was the first person in the whole wide world that wasn’t related to me or my friend who read my novel Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb and then wrote about it on her blog. So you can understand why I’m so happy to be announcing that she’s got a new novel coming… Continue reading Daughter of Chaos Cover Reveal
On Kafka, Richter and Memories
I have a strange relationship with posthumously published pieces. In the one instance, I desperately want to read them. Especially if it’s an author I really like because then as a reader I get to momentarily undo their death and hear one last story. On the other hand it feels like cheating. It wasn’t… Continue reading On Kafka, Richter and Memories
A New Nephew
In the Hours – for Wesley Edward In the hours before you were born I was underground, riding the subway and trying to learn how this universe that you are now a part of like the planets and the willow trees and me and her and him began which is not an easy thing to… Continue reading A New Nephew
Ally Malinenko 