I've been thinking about (missing) my dad today. And how Levi sometimes looks like him and I think, "How did Corrie get in there?" This (above) is not an expression I've seen from my father. While very few things compare to scripture for me, every now and then I need a silly book. Yes, silly. Not poorly written, but strictly for fun. So I just listened to Shannon Hale's Austenland and giggled. Levi, poor kid, endured to the end. He liked the voice better than the reader of Candy Freak (which has interesting research, but the author is annoying and frankly, not even worth blogging about). Levi just awoke from his lengthy 20-minute nap and I'm remembering all the other things I should be doing because I recognize that this blog is mostly self-promotion and that thought makes me uncomfortable. Shannon Hale is enjoyable and recommendable.
Yesterday I shoved all the unrevised pieces I'm considering for my thesis and came out with a 100 page document. Crappy. Unpolished. Disconnected. But 100 pages. Perhaps I'll be able to pull this off by December as planned.
In other news, my essay "Full Stop," (previously known as "Period!") will be published in the next issue of Tusculum Review. Found out last week, and yes, I'm a bit giddy. I'll probably (unfortunately--check out these adverbs, will ya?--) get over this soon. But I am pleased. Wesley is narrowing our grad school options. We're down to 8 and need to go down two or three more since each application is about $90. I'm so excited to go (anywhere) with him; I do worry about leaving my writing friends, my workshop buddies, my essay posse. Who will tell me when I inadvertently make sexual comments, or when I should keep working on something, or when I really should just ditch an idea.
And, after Conference and a series of 3 a.m. revelation periods, I may be taking up poetry and even Emily Dickinson again.
As a member of said essay posse, I would like to say 1) that little boy of yours is adorable, 2) CONGRATULATIONS on the publication of yet another essay (by the way, is there any way I might get you to email me a copy of this one and the one you had published in Hotel Amerika?), 3) I certainly hope that you and Wesley are considering schools in and around Ohio :), and 4) I am very excited to share more ideas and essays with you.
ReplyDeleteAlso, have you read Brenda Miller's "Blessing the Animals"? She's our writer in residence here at the end of the month so we nonfictionists got a copy of the book and I am LOVING it. Just thought I'd pass that along!
Don't worry. I will still tell you whenever you make inadvertent sexual comments :)
ReplyDeleteEven though I don't really want you to move away either.
But it will be good! It's exciting to have all those opportunities in far away places.