September 6, 2017 Laurie Prim What Didn’t Kill Me Chapter 6: 11 Weeks, about the size of a lime Grief is not linear. I’m jagged. I finally make it to July, but based on my cycles, it turns out to be August before we can try to...
Read MoreMay 9, 2017 Book : The Nasty Women Project This reading was nothing short of fabulous. I cried (a lot), I laughed (a lot), I was moved and inspired, as a writer, as a fertility warrior, as a fierce mama, as an activist, as a...
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2017 This is my long-overdue review of The Magic of Memoir, Edited by Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner. My essay, It Would Never Happen To Us discusses the potential ramifications of telling your truth. I shared my...
Read MoreNovember 15, 2016 The Magic of Memoir is available today! I am so proud to be part of this amazing book!
Read MoreNovember 5, 2016 I am officially published! Eeek! #Grateful #Proud #PinchMe LP
Read MoreOctober 24, 2016 Anyone ever get dumped by a friend, a friend from whom you would NEVER have seen it coming, and certainly not in the fashion in which it came? My relationship with one of my very best friends managed to come out...
Read MoreOctober 23, 2016 One reason it’s taking so long to edit my memoir. Multiply this by about 8,000 sentences. Add shaping 100,000 words into readable, meaningful scenes. Pour into a story structure containing beginning,...
Read MoreOctober 16, 2016 This cost me a best friend when she read my memoir a year and a half ago and never spoke a single word to me again. I was stunned then, and I remain stunned now. But sorry? No. I wrote an essay about this...
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2016 I am re-naming my Bonus Reads Queue Cutters! which better reflects them here on my blog. These are books for which I interrupt regularly scheduled programming reading for various short-term reasons—a...
Read MoreJuly 27, 2016 Finished: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This was a book club read. Not for me. For people who are deep, and/or like to think they are deep. It’s why I hate poetry—just say what you fucking mean. Ugh....
Read MoreMay 15, 2016 Daughters Of The Dragon by William Andrews I knew going into this what Comfort Women were, and therefore, that it was going to be traumatic, but I forged on in the name of book club and being able to handle brutal...
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