So I wanted to post some photos from Philly, too, which I did not get to the other day due to excessive VERBOSITY. BUT I had this lovely weekend in Philly with my sister, staying with my friends Mark and Jen and their beauteous hellion daughter Anna, who fell madly in love with my sister and decided that I am now chopped liver, sigh, even tho I ( Read more... )

So when I was in Florida I took a bunch of photos of pictures in my grandmother's old old photo book, including of her own grandfather Ginther whom she totally and utterly adored and speaks of with unending affection. Gus Ginther (1863 - 1955) was a painter -- not only of big beautiful still lifes and so on but of movie posters and circus posters, ( Read more... )

So I am back in State College, Pennsylvania, after a week in Florida, a weekend in Philly, and another week in NYC, and I am very very excited for a few reasons but ONE reason is that after a few false starts and much going back and forth with my agent I have finally, finally figured out book #4, which I believes will have something to do with one ( Read more... )

I've been in Florida since last Friday but haven't had much of a chance to write here and now must skedaddle to my grandmother's house to help prepare for and partake in a lovely picnic by the lake, one involving the best food ever DEVILED EGGS, but yesterday I was looking at old old photos and hearing 500000 old stories and I would just like to ( Read more... )

So two nights ago I got to meet my friend Barb's new baby, Vivienne Coco Lee Witmer. At one week old Vivienne has a quite astonishing repertoire of coos and sighs and burbles--she is downright orchestral--so I'm pretty sure she is a superbaby and I secretly suspect she has wings and possibly psychic powers. Look at her!


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So last week I made a last minute decision to come up to NYC after reading about this opera of Dante's Divine Comedy that would be debuting at Carnegie Hall, "La commedia" by Louis Andriessen, which I saw last Thursday night with my friends Michael and David and which I loved. I don't know anything about this music, I just wanted to see it because ( Read more... )

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While I remain in a journalizing kind of mood I will randomly note the following:

1. I saw THE RUNAWAYS yesterday and I completely, totally loved it even tho it was a little on the UN-DEEP side and not altogether cohesive... But it looked amazing, sounded amazing, the girls in it were amazing, and I appreciated the I'm-your-wild-girl-ness of the ( Read more... )

So last weekend I drove to Cincinnati with my mama to see my friend David Bar Katz's play The History of Invulnerability, the first preview performance at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. My mother did things like force me to see Blue Velvet and Almodovar movies when they came out and always took my sister and me to plays, about 500000000 of ( Read more... )

“Stop it, all of you!” Nadine said, lifting a heap of jewelry from the chest and tossing it out at them. Heavy gold and silver, jewels of every color, streaking across the water. All manner of sea creature appeared suddenly, from under rocks and among the coral, attracted by the flashing gems. “It’s over. Lenia’s back. We’re arguing over nothing ( Read more... )