Twirling a satirical spin around life’s idiosyncrasies
Posted in City grit, Me, me, me! on Aug 1st, 2010
(Sorry, Paula Cole, but you made it too easy.)
Sometimes, amidst the vast activity that’s consumed my life this summer - two writing classes; a full-time job plus a pleasantly welcomed bounty of freelance work; training (see below!), eating and sleeping; and, occasionally, breathing - I often forget that I have this website (or, blog, whatever). [...]
Posted in City grit, Me, me, me! on Apr 26th, 2010
I was one of four lucky participants in the third rendition of Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match, held last Wednesday at eponymous Enormous Room. Though I didn’t win (and I’ll spare any qualms against being paired up against a heavily published BU professor - truly, it was an honor), I enjoyed not just the performance [...]
Posted in City grit, Me, me, me! on Apr 19th, 2010
Out of the kindness of his heart, Opium Magazine founder and editor, Todd Zuniga, has selected me to participate in its latest rendition of the now infamous Literary Death Match. This will be the battle’s second time in Cambridge at the oh-so-ironic Enormous Room; the first time around, I was encompassed in a cloud of [...]
Posted in City grit on May 30th, 2009
“Are you sure you’re in the right place, dear?”
A woman with greying hair, a turtleneck and a no-nonsense set of freshly sharpened pencils glanced at my peach tote bag crammed with my laptop, a handful of borrowed books and a copy of season 3 of Sex and the City poking loudly out the top. I, [...]
Posted in Philosothings on Apr 21st, 2009
The past year has proven to be a remarkable one: a year marked with tremendous personal growth, unforeseen challenges and strengthened friendships. A year mixed with love, loss and eternal hope that ignites my spirit and sends it soaring to unprecedented heights. A year fortified with people and places for which my gratitude is continuously [...]
Posted in Philosothings on Mar 23rd, 2009
My mentor once discussed with me the act of showing up for one’s own life - “to be present and not simply there,” as she explained it one April afternoon. I always assumed it had more to do with showing up on time for appointments and the like, a task which has never been my [...]
Posted in Philosothings on Feb 21st, 2009
I made the proactive choice to sacrifice my social life this month, choosing instead to forge relationships with the dozen or so books I’ve devoured between the scribbling, the editing and the waiting. Two books in past four days, actually; 600 and some odd pages of time spent with the women whose memoirs I must [...]