Posted in Keepin' it Will., Write said Fred on Jul 8th, 2008 5 Comments »
I’m struggling with this revision* I’ve got to do. S-t-r-u-g-g-l-i-n-g. Last week I realized that I wasn’t accomplishing what I thought I was accomplishing, which was creating enough danger and tension in my story to compel the reader to keep going. I imagined a reader getting to the third chapter and [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will., Look at me...I'm so great. on Jun 11th, 2008 10 Comments »
It started like this:
When Will was a kid he went to summer camp. While at summer camp he got to go sailing. Years and years later, he swore to me that sailing was the best THING EVER and he would never be happy unless he got a sailboat. Ok…not exactly in those [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will. on Apr 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
Everything isn’t all fun and games in the Harrison household. Sure, there’s plenty of raucous behavior, but there’s also the softer side. The side that works on perpetual motion, and breeds mutant butterflies and what-not. Recently, I took time away from my busy Jai alai practices and reanimation studies at the morgue to [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will. on Apr 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
What do you get when you mix a goofball 19 year old girl who likes to sing and also likes to change the words to the songs that she sings and also likes to sing at people and insert their names into the songs, with a not-as-goofy 18 year old boy who’s name is Will [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will., Look at me...I'm so great. on Apr 10th, 2008 17 Comments »
When Will and I first moved to North Idaho in 2005, we were very aware of the ‘granolas.’ Granolas are the hippie types. The dreadlocked ones with their pot-smoking, dreadlocked babies slung to their backsides, the braless, shoeless ones, whose husbands have long mangy beards and a I’m-totally-not-digging-the-government aura about them. Oh, [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will., Look at me...I'm so great. on Apr 5th, 2008 9 Comments »
I believe it was Mary Poppins who stated ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ To which I emphatically respond, ‘Amen sistah.’ And then Mary Poppins says, ‘Up to bed, spit spot.’ And then I say, ‘You’re not the boss of me, and ps I think you’re a witch. And [...]
Posted in A day in the life, Keepin' it Will. on Apr 2nd, 2008 10 Comments »
Something very strange.
I knew there would be changes, he told me there would be changes. I expected him to miss us, to appreciate the noise and the housecleaning and meals provided. I expected him to relish the solitude, but welcome us back with open arms.
Let me throw some numbers and words [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will. on Mar 15th, 2008 9 Comments »
me: No. It’s like this, I start a famous song lyric and you finish it with the funniest thing you can think of.
Will: um, ok
me: Ready?
Will: I’m not wayne brady
me: I spend every day of my life wishing you were Wayne Brady.
Will: why, cause he’s BLACK?
me: Yes.
Will: sec, [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will., Listen to this!, Look at me...I'm so great., The emancipation of meme on Feb 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
6. On the Radio by Regina Spektor
And on the radio
You hear November Rain
That solo’s awful long
But it’s a good refrain
You listen to it twice
‘Cause the DJ is asleep
On the radio
(oh oh oh)
On the radio
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio
Last summer one of [...]
Posted in Keepin' it Will., Listen to this!, Look at me...I'm so great. on Feb 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
There are several inspirations for this particular post. Here they are in list form:
1. Will suggested I do a post of the songs I would sing if I were the lead singer of a cover band. And while I love dealing in hypotheticals, I practically run my whole life around them, the [...]
