Category: Wonderings

• September 8, 2015

  They Say Never Meet Your Idols

  But I did it last week and it was great. Thursday was an important occasion – I met my copyfather. The man who writes like he birthed me himself and has given me muchos advice and encouragement. That man is Chris Miller. It was #CopywritersUnite of course! In a dreadfully loud pub but a lovely…
• August 28, 2015

  It’s Been a Good Week for Creative Output

  You guys. It finally happened. The words I’ve been waiting to hear since I was a little girl. OMB WINNERS: Advertise the #McWhopper @adamjackson26 @pw_bond @chorles @jay_pegg @mutatedmusings @fralph1976 https://t.co/fKdCkzwlEm RT — One Minute Briefs (@OneMinuteBriefs) August 27, 2015   I won a One Minute Briefs. Me. Y’all know I was sad my “Just as…
• August 20, 2015

  The Furnished Room by O. Henry

  I loved The Furnished Room by O. Henry so much that I can’t not share some of it. The descriptions are so lush and vivid. One by one, as the characters of a cryptograph become explicit, the little signs left by the furnished room’s procession of guests developed a significance. The threadbare space in the…
• August 19, 2015

  Joyce, Poe, and Other Short Stories

  “…watching the evening invade the avenue.” That’s from Eveline, a short story by James Joyce. I didn’t know that until this morning, when I read my fourth email from Highbrow, a magnificent entity that sends out bite-sized portions of its ‘courses’. My chosen subjects are great cities and short stories; the latter is working out…
• July 27, 2015

  Two Things I Found Out Aren’t Real and Then Found Out Are Real

  Two things have come to light in recent weeks, both of which I believed for a large portion of my life to be false, having had my youthful beliefs obliterated by the inevitable crush of growing up. Two things that have – against all these odds – turned out to be true. Venus fly traps…