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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Infinity Dollar Bill
My son, last night at bedtime, asked me if there was a such thing as an infinity dollar bill. I asked him what he meant. “It looks like one dollar, and it is one dollar, but it keeps on being … Continue reading
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Tagged art, conceptual vertigo, cosmology, infinity, kids and economics, this kid is too smart for his own good
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I’m pretty sure I just squashed the dreams (and possibly the souls) of a bunch of college students.
I just got back from a student/alumni networking event for Liberal Arts majors at my alma mater, St. Catherine University – a small, Catholic, all-lady college in Minnesota. I had agreed – foolishly, yes, I see that now – to … Continue reading
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Tagged ah! College!, alma mater, alumni, College of St. Catherine, fiction is my job, I wish I was better at this sort of thing, Little Brown, networking, On my unsuitability for most types of employment, on vocation, on writing, starry-eyed co-eds, transformative thinking
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Know what I love?
Sand animation. And I think I need to take a few days forcing my eyes away from the things that make channel my inner Fury- and meditate instead on moments of beauty, moments of grace, and moments of the friggin cool. … Continue reading
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Tagged a moment of thanks for sand, beauty, joy, Summer, truth, Ukraine history as told in sand, Vivaldi, Youtube totally rules
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Two weeks to MECHANIQUE! Two weeks!
Ladies and Gentlemen! On May 5, 2011, Genevieve Valentine’s gorgeously glorious novel Mechanique, a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti will be available to anyone with a bookstore nearby – or, failing that, an internet connection and a credit card and a … Continue reading
On Michele Bachmann and Justin Bieber: Pan, meet Flash.
Over the years, I’ve had to make peace with Michele “Hot for God” Bachmann. It hasn’t been easy. Back when she was spreading her own little vitriolic brand of HateMongeringCrazyTalk ™ at the State Capitol (when, she was convinced, for … Continue reading
Adendum to the Infinity Bottles of Beer on The Wall post
Thanks to the glorious time-wasting machine that is my internet router, I have discovered an entire movement in house and building design that I had never heard of before – one that is so exquisitely marvelous – an amalgamation of … Continue reading
Infinity Bottles of Beer on the Wall
My son, at six fifteen this morning, started signing a song: “INFINITY BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL, INFINITY BOTTLES OF BEER. IF ONE OF THOSE BOTTLES SHOULD HAPPEN TO FALL INFINITY BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL.” Which, actually, … Continue reading
Sometimes, the Weather Has Other Plans
I had every intention of going for an eleven mile run today, I really did. I was going to feel the rhythm of my body and breathe and ruminate on the book un-knot the tangled bits and re-think the wobbly … Continue reading
