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Category Archives: metaphors
Wherein I dust off my kitchen nerdery… I was making bread. I do this often. Yesterday it was pizza crust. And I know that instant yeast was invented just so I could skip the “proofing” step, but did you know that the proofing step is one of my favorite things? So I put the warm...
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 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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I had one. I know. It’s amazing because it’s so very, very rare. Last night I did the Valentine’s dinner, with a little something that was each person’s favorite. That by no means should be misinterpreted to say that everyone liked everything on the table. But everyone ate. And everyone loves stuffed mushrooms. Isn’t that...
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So I’ve been thinking about viruses. Haven’t you? Last month I taught at a conference where Brandon “Check out my dimple and my NY Times Bestsellers” Mull said that passion is contagious. He meant passion for our writing. If you’re feeling it when you write, someone should feel it when he reads. I love that....
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I get rather a lot of comments on my blog that you don’t see. More than the kind you do see. These are the kind with a zillion links to famous people I don’t know, and sometimes written in Russian/Cyrillic alphabet, and containing Offers. Such as the one I just deleted, that I should maybe...
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Don’t you sometimes wish the hard stuff just didn’t exist? Or that it would go away? But here’s a thing I’ve been pondering lately, and several people have been talking about it. And blogging about it. If we don’t know the hard stuff, what do we really know at all? I’m extremely lucky (lucky =...
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Remember that last week I did school visits to the 7th and 8th grade honors kids? Remember that? They do. Maybe. But here’s something we talked about. Healthy literacy is like a healthy diet. To eat well, you need a blend of this and that. Lots of variety. Lots of color. Would it hurt you...
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This is funny. I’m reading through the draft and laughing here and there. Laughing at my own writing is a very happy thing. One funny thing happening is this: I have a major character who used to be named Nate, but is now named Charlie. This has nothing to do with a brother who may...
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