Every now and then–WAY too infrequently, if you ask me–J.K. Rowling posts an item in her on-line diary. Check out this one from October 31:
“I’ve just had a great writing week. There are few feelings more joyous than reading back over the week’s work and thinking, ‘that’s not bad at all,’ as opposed [...]
I subscribe to a great magazine called Women’s Adventure, which includes among its regular contributors author and outdoorswoman Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness, Sight Hound, etc.).
Her column in this month’s issue is about New Year’s resolutions–about how she’s always resisted them, but has decided to try it this year just to see what all [...]
Sunday afternoons are for movies with my mom. (Everyone together now: Awwwww). And I especially like it when I see a movie that makes my little heart sing.
So let us speak of Stranger Than Fiction. You’ve got Will Ferrell giving the best low-key, true-to-life performance I’ve ever seen from [...]
Okay, this is too cool. Yesterday I got a package from my publisher with a few samples of the swag they’ll be handing out in connection with my book.
Is it weird that I actually got more excited about that than about seeing the Advanced Reader Copy of my book last week? It’s just [...]
Last night I was with a group of people I don’t know very well, talking to one of the ones who seemed most like me, and when one of the other people got up to go somewhere for a minute, my companion said, “That woman is weird.”
“Do you know her?” I asked.
“No, but you can [...]
Last night instead of watching Lost like a good little addict (don’t worry, I taped it), I went to a lecture on what was supposed to be theology and science, but ended up being this big whine session by the speaker, who is a novelist, and who clearly suffers for his art.
He had this whole [...]
Okay, let’s say you woke up this morning and you were the party in power. Let’s say furthermore that you were a person of power within that party of power.
What would you do first?
I don’t mean to celebrate (although I doubt any Dems are getting any work done today–especially since some races [...]
Maybe it’s a little cornball, but I truly love to vote. I love the ritual of it. Our polling place is a good distance away, so it’s a nice long walk on a chilly morning, and we live in the land of perpetual sunshine, so it’s just beautiful this time of year, and [...]
This is one of those personal postings where I tell you things I’ve only just recently revealed to my husband.
No, I have not had a sex change operation. He would have noticed. One hopes.
This is about what it’s like to claim to be a writer or musician or other kind of artist, without [...]
It’s actually starting to freak me out a bit that someone I know–whose couch I’ve sat on, whose wife I’ve hugged, whose salty snacks I’ve overindulged in–keeps showing up in these real live news publications, like he’s a public figure or something and the little people like you and me have no business claiming we [...]