Comments | alicebentley: In just two weeks

alicebentley

In just two weeks

Mar 18, 2015 08:24

Two weeks from now I will be flying off to Minneapolis, leaving my home of 11 years here on the dim green quiet island and returning to my favorite occupation: bookselling. I can't wait (and yet I must wait). My head is filled with all the questions I can only answer there, and the plans that Greg and I may or may not choose to implement. We're not ( Read more... )

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davidlevine March 18 2015, 16:29:15 UTC

This seems to imply that you are moving to Minneapolis and taking up bookselling as a career again. True? What about Mike?

alicebentley March 18 2015, 16:56:21 UTC

Greg Ketter has offered me a partnership share in DreamHaven. With my time and energy we should be able to get the bookstore back on a full time schedule (we're going for Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 6:30 pm) and increase the mail order outreach.
Mike and Marty are staying on Vashon for now. If all goes as we hope and expect, we will put the house up for sale and they will join me in Minneapolis sometime in the fall.
Greg and I are giving the scheme a couple of months as a trial - if we have problems working out as active business partners, then I still have Vashon to return to. Mike and I had a long batch of living far apart back in 2000 - 2004, we know it's not as fun as living together, but it didn't seem to harm our relationship a bit.

davidlevine March 18 2015, 21:59:16 UTC

Thanks for the update. I hadn't known any of this! Good luck!

kevin_standlee March 18 2015, 16:48:05 UTC

Good luck in the renewed bookselling life!

wyld_dandelyon March 18 2015, 18:53:00 UTC

Good luck!

You make me curious as to why Skype doesn't work as well as in-person for making plans and communicating. I wonder, is this a personal preference for all communications or is it the topic that doesn't work, or is it more that the abstract stuff has been talked to death and you need the project itself at hand to be able to work on it productively? I'm not asking for personal or business details, mind you, or really any answer at all unless the topic also interests you.

But communication, and how the media affects the outcome, has long been of interest to me, so if you happen to be interested in discussing that aspect of things, it would be cool.

robling_t March 18 2015, 20:36:17 UTC

RE the acrylic yarn, if you've got a yarn shop handy, ask if they'd like it; most indie LYSs either do charity-knitting drives that specifically request acrylic or can hook you up with someone who does who'd be happy to have more yarn to work with, regardless of the state it's in (so long as that state is "reasonably clean", of course).

jeliza March 19 2015, 04:57:09 UTC

Good luck!