On Searching for a More Apt Word Than FAIL: A Substitute and Not a Synonym

Time is up.
NaNoWriMo has ended.
December 1st has passed.
We survived.
And this, this is the story of survival.

Survival begins much uglier than you might think.
It begins with guilt and shame and a desire to fade into the white and the flurry of fragments — of self and storyline and understanding.
The story is a blurred and spinning motion [...]

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Hidden Cache of Lost Marbles

Where did I put my marbles this weekend?

For starters, Berns and I signed up for NaNoWriMo, which if you haven’t heard about is probably the most intimidating bout of dedicated self-torture through literary explosion I’ve heard of and knowingly, even excitedly, volunteered for!  NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in [...]

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A Polemic on Listmaking

We are, between us, the following:
One world traveler/grad-student-to-be/post-Brookylnite/post-post-Baltimorean/canvas shoe wearer/fledgling orthalogian/daily consumer of Americanized Mexican food
One domestic cat-lady-in-waiting/psychiatric rehabilitation specialist/counselor/fledgling harpist/wannabe philatelist/incredibly redundant wordsmith/potential theology student
We are both cheeky. And avid coffee swindlers. And, of course, obsessive list-makers.
Once in a seminar/training, titled “Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: The Cornell Model,” I was asked about my own [...]

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