Archive for November, 2007
Why I Write
Good question. It is my heart’s desire. That’s my best answer. Fiction has always been my friend. It has been the art form that moves me the most deeply, and to which am inescapably drawn. As to who I envision as my audience, that is also an interesting question. After I almost died, I wasn’t [...]
Happy to be in my belly
I was reading Angela the book, Are You My Mother?, this morning and when the baby bird jumps inside the egg, I told her that she jumped when she was inside me and I could feel her. She said, “I’m so happy that I was inside your belly. You covered me. And then I growed.” [...]
My Man
The other evening, I jokingly said to Dane, as he lay on the bed next to Angie, “There’s my man.”
Angie immediately responded, “He’s not your man, he’s my man. You go find yourself a man of your own!” and she threw her arms across this chest and hugged him tightly.
I think she got this from [...]
Motel Life—Willy Vlautin
Reading Willy Vlautin’s novel, The Motel Life, was a singular experience in that I have never read anything that spoke so clearly to the underbelly of life here in Reno—a life I have experienced, albeit a couple of decades earlier than Willy, and perhaps not quite as extremely as is depicted in the novel. I [...]
Mimi and Richard Fariña — Reno Nevada
Artist: Mimi And Richard Farina Tabs
Song Chords : Reno Nevada
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Em
It’s a long,long way down to Reno, Nevada and a long,long [...]
Angela rises with the sun
This morning, Angie was awake around 7 a.m. and I wanted to go back to sleep. She said: “The sun rises in the East and the light comes in the window and that means it’s time to wake up.”
She motioned toward the light coming in above the sun-bloc curtains.
The other day, she said she wanted [...]
Simple Plan
Simple Plan, a boy band from Canada, has a song that perfectly captures what it’s like to wake up almost dead in a hospital. While their song is about drunk driving and how awful it is to kill or injure someone, the words nonetheless, are my words. They sing to me. I saw the blinding [...]
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