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, becca September 21, 2011

I’m still faithful to you, Emma Thompson.

And also Kate Winslet. It’s about Sense and Sensibility. For sure, the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet/Hugh Grant version ranks among my top 5 favorite movies EVER. Ang Lee’s directorness is stunning (even though nobody goes Crouching Tiger in any scene – not that they shouldn’t, because wouldn’t we love to see that in the Willoughby Confrontation
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, becca September 20, 2011

Warning: Popularity ahead.

Kid 1 got asked to Homecoming. (Yay! Homecoming!) And the boy is a cute friend, and he asked in a cute way [1]. And she’s so glad. Then she figured out a cute way to answer him [2]. And she’s so glad. And at the precise moment that she was answering this boy (who does
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, , , , becca September 19, 2011

Fun Things Happen

Here’s why a girl doesn’t blog for nearly a week: She has a birthday. She spends this birthday doing really fun things. She finds herself inundated by happy b-day messages here, there, everywhere and SHE LOVES IT. (Fear not. I am done referring to myself in the third person. This causes instant distress in all
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, becca September 13, 2011

Good News: It’s NOT the Worst Book in the World

I’m revising. (Feel my pain here.) Actually it’s not so painful. I already had my requisite period of “Why am I even trying to write a book? This is the worst book ever written.” It happened during the drafting part. And that is awesome, let me tell you. It’s like duct-taping your hindparts into the
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, becca September 9, 2011

Romancing the Education

My dad used to tell me I was really good at starting to get into learning about things. I took that as a compliment. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t. He meant that I was great at cracking open the surface of knowledge, looking at the sparkly center, and then putting it away. I studied several
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, , becca September 7, 2011

Stuff, and Things, and What Matters, Anyway

Sometimes I tell stories more than once. So stop me if you’ve heard this one before… Once upon a time my smaller, younger family moved to Indianapolis. We found a great little neighborhood to live in, and we bought a cute little house for our cute little selves. The trees were enormous, the mortgage was
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, becca September 6, 2011

Going On

Researching (agents and editors. again. forever.) Reading (chaim potok. oh,chaim. i lurrrrve you so.) Walking (kids to bus stops, around blocks, around lakes, around neighborhoods, around farms.) Eating (mostly plants up till dinner time. need to find me a butter plant. coconut oil may replace butter. or not.) Setting Aside (the zero-draft manuscript [fifth gift]
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, becca September 1, 2011

Books Read in August

Hey, look! A new calendar page! Which means that we have passed yet another month in which I did a few of the things I thought I would. I read a bit. I wrote a bit. I played a bit. I sauteed a great many onions, when I come to think about it. I ate
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