by lb-admin | Jun 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
I am making cupcakes for a BBQ. My son has poured about a gallon of food coloring into the bowls of vanilla frosting, turning them unnaturally bright shades of their normal colors. It’s not green but GREEN!!! Not orange but ORANGE!!! It looks like a set from...
by lb-admin | May 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
I’ve come to the conclusion that I just don’t know how to behave when I’m not on deadline. For the past 18 months, I have been under nearly constant pressure to write one novel or another, and then suddenly, come May, I…wasn’t. It feels a...
by lb-admin | Apr 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
RULES I HAVE BROKEN THIS WEEK 1. Never give to those people collecting for charity on the street. Usually, my policy is to ask someone to send me something in the mail so I can read up on it and send in my 22 cents or whatever. I have a knee-jerk reaction against...
by lb-admin | Apr 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
Argh, matey. I’m struggling to finish a novel I promised to someone back in the fall when I was under duress to get out another novel–never a good time to make promises. So as I kept saying, yeah, yeah, sure, no problem on that deadline, I wasn’t...
by lb-admin | Mar 11, 2005 | Uncategorized
It’s my birthday. Woke up this morning and said two words: Monkey Bread. Now, you may be saying to yourself, What a strange person. What secret meaning does that phrase hold? And how do they get the monkeys on the bread? Come, let me show you the secrets of the...
by lb-admin | Mar 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
So I went to New Orleans last weekend and did a little research for the new book. What can I tell you about my trip? Well, first of all, New Orleans is a completely different town when you are not 21 and drunk. (I spent my 21st birthday puking in a parking lot there,...
