The Indulgent Pleasure of Re-Reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Turn on all your lights, find a dog to sit at your feet and don’t expect to get any sleep the night you decide to read Bram Stoker’s Dracula. You…
Surprise and Disbelief: A Short Story from Smart Girl, Dumb Love
Surprise and Disbelief A short story from Smart Girl, Dumb Love of The Breakup Girl Series Carl was my first love. It took One Week for me to fall in love with…
I Bought Pot the First Day It Was Legal in Washington
On Tuesday, the first retail marijuana store opened in Seattle. As this coincided nicely with our weekly date night, I made the executive decision that my husband and I should head…
Keep Dreaming: The Bittersweet Experience of Quitting Your Own Company
As many of you already know, last week I announced my departure from Writer.ly. I stepped down from the role of CEO of the company I started in order to…
My Favorite Writing Game
I saw recently on ye olde Facebooke that one of my favored professors from Evergreen has a book in a Kickstarter campaign by Starcherone Books. While of course I hope…
Cowboy Heaven: The Passing of a Patriarch
I drafted this piece four years back, just found it in a neglected folder and cleaned up the rough patches. Mostly. My grandfather didn’t die on my shift. I was…
My Summer of Boys
The clock hits noon. Time to wake the dragons. With a deep sigh, I do my best to wrap-up whatever contracting project I’m working on and close my laptop. Fortified…
My Daughter Lies: Karma Bites a Writer in Her Skin-Tight Dress
My daughter lies in the best way possible – in her writing. For her sixth grade language arts class, she wrote a story based on an experience from her life.…
The Poet’s Advice: Don’t Write Crap
When I told my writing group that I planned to write one blog post per day in June, Kay, a poet, gave me a warning. “Don’t write crap.” I laughed,…
Killing the Pirate: The Cutting Pain of Editing a Character from a Novel
This evening, I discovered the ending to the novel I’ve been working on for the past nine years. Glorious. It all makes sense now. Of course, I also realize that…
