Being a writer, I do a lot of weird things in the name of procrastination. Yesterday I made a super-volcano in my washing machine with baking powder and vinegar (it cleans the inside). I often pull out my magnification mirror and play amateur face surgeon until it appears that I have meth sores. I monitor my house for poltergeists. I think about lunch, a lot.
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Last week I binged The Home Edit on Netflix and didn't write a single word. It was the voyeurism that lured me in. Who doesn’t want to snoop through Neil Patrick Harris’s playroom, look in Rachel Zoe’s closet, and judge Kane Brown’s pantry?
Read MoreAs Colorado transitions from stay at home orders to safer at home, I am like a prison guard being asked to loosen restrictions. I barely remember parenting before these restrictions, back in the glorious times of friends, sports, and school. These middle school prisoners of mine are chomping at the bit for their freedom; is it wise to give them just a taste and not the whole thing?
Read MoreI expected the silly commercials. I prepared for how much I would overeat. Jennifer Lopez showing off her stripper movie moves was magnificent, but still expected.
Read MoreThe 2019 National Book Award winner for fiction will be announced on November 20th. I rushed to read the ten nominees so I could infect you with my two-sentence opinions. The problem was that I also shuttled kids around, wrote, did laundry, cleaned house, cooked, and grocery shopped.
Read MoreDid anyone else grow up on a steady diet of teen sleuth novels? I owned and read the entire blue-covered series printed in the 1960s (I later sold them for pennies at a garage sale).
Read MoreI remember reluctantly reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in my twenties, hiding the cover, embarrassed to be studying a children's book. The embarrassment quickly fell away, and I was swept up in the series. I still maintain that it is one of my favorites. However, I wasn’t as intense as some Potter fans because I came to the series later in life. I didn’t dress up or get tattooed.
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