This is something I wrote on Tumblr earlier today, as part of an ongoing music meme. Each day presents a new theme, and anyone can post a song that relates to that theme in some way. I’ve recently gotten back into it after a couple months of non-participation, and I’m remembering how much I enjoy [...]
Entries Tagged as 'flashbacks'
Been Caught Stealing
July 18th, 2011 · No Comments · flashbacks
I saw some study or other on the Internet recently that purported to debunk the myth that “the case of the Mondays” is an actual thing. At least, that was the headline. I didn’t bother reading the article because OF COURSE “case of the Mondays” is an actual thing. For Pete’s sake, the weekend is [...]
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On peas (I warned you)
April 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · flashbacks, food, stuff
Actually, I started writing something else this morning — actually following through on one of my ideas from earlier this year! Progress is being made! I am advancing in my personal growth! — but as things often do, it exploded in my face. What I thought was going to be a quickie post about cool [...]
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Pet math
January 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments · flashbacks
I moved to New York in the summer of 2002 — so many of my stories start this way. It was the end of July, it was the hottest day of the year so far, something I’m sure it’s hard to fathom today, seeing as New York is today galumphing its way through more snow [...]
On Influential Authors
November 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books, flashbacks
I’ve been inspired by that Facebook meme (oh, and all your sources of inspiration are highbrow gems?) (OK, I honestly don’t know where that attitude is coming from, but I seem to have loads of it today and it has to come out somewhere, and neither the book reviews nor my NaNo writing is the [...]
Tags:15 authors·A Wrinkle in Time·facebook·Little Bear·Madeleine L'Engle
When smoking was classy
July 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments · flashbacks, photo essays, stuff
Next month will mark my five-year anniversary as a non-smoker. I’m happy to say that I don’t miss it at all — which surprised me at first, since all I’d ever heard from ex-smokers was how much they still craved cigarettes. Once, during one of the eleventy thousand times I tried to quit, someone who [...]
My Grandmother’s Hats
May 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · flashbacks, photo essays, writing
My grandmother was a classy dame. So classy, in fact, that she’d probably disapprove of my calling her a dame. She was a lady. (When she died, and family gathered together to talk to the rabbi about her life, I remember my mom and aunt saying something like, “She never wore pants. Because ladies didn’t [...]
Tags:1940s·1950s·1960s·fashion·grandmother·hats·history·mad men era·Minnesota·st. paul·vintage
Cast your mind back to Fall 1991 . . .
April 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · flashbacks, writing
First of all: I am not going to spend the month of April going on and on and on about MY PLAY. I can’t promise I won’t spend the first week and a couple days thereafter discussing it in some part, because it is a brand new project and I am excited about it and [...]
Tags:1991·anita hill·clarence thomas·college·feminism·screenplay·script frenzy·writing
The first in what will assuredly be a series
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · flashbacks, writing
You guys. I’m reading the diary I kept when I was 13. The one I got for my bat mitzvah, the one with my name embossed on the inside front cover, only it’s spelled incorrectly. (Who leaves out the final E in Michelle? You may have your one-L-or-two preference, but that last E is pretty [...]
Fish will eat anything
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · flashbacks
The following was inspired by a writing prompt courtesy of Write One Leaf. My family wasn’t the outdoorsy kind (too much nature), but I don’t think it’s possible to grow up in Minnesota and NOT go fishing at least once. And while ice fishing is definitely something one needs to experience — again, at least [...]
Tags:fishing·Grand Forks·lake fishing·Minnesota·North Dakota·outdoors