Atlanta, here I come!
I am honored and privileged to speak this coming Saturday (March 28) for a most extraordinary event in Atlanta. The Georgia Cancer Foundation's luncheon and fashion show will feature cancer survivors as models on the runway with a support person, a human survival unit who has helped them on their …
write who you are
I've started finding little books everywhere in the house, explosions of writing from a girl just starting down that writing trail, recognizing for the first time the power of those lines on paper to say what she longs to say. She evidently has a lot to say, from the looks …
happy birthday, dear billy
Today is Billy Collins' birthday. I'm a tiny bit fond of him. And, oh yes of course, his poetry. (He writes to me all the time. We talk on the phone every December 26, 2007). A friend asked how I'm celebrating. Of course, here's what I told him: "I call …
Buy some lemonade today
This little 8-year-old girl lost her mom to cancer last month. She is selling lemonade this weekend in Orlando hoping to raise $50 for cancer research. I think we can help her far exceed that goal. Can you donate $3 or $7 or $37 to help her honor the memory …
Tape a leaf stem to your medal
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. -Confucius I am beginning to doubt (wonder?) if I can actually complete the Flying Pig half-marathon I've signed up for on May 3rd in Cincinnati. Seriously. Dear lord in heaven above, forget running. Even walking …
Life is a Verb hits jolly old England (and Europe)
Life is a Verb is now available in the U.K. and Europe! For those who are British or European readers of 37days, if you know of magazines, radio shows, newspapers, or other media to whom the publisher should send review copies, please let me know! My book is better traveled …
A favorite hand-sell book of the year, oh my.
I was delighted to learn tonight that Life is a Verb has been nominated for a SIBA Award. As the Southern Independent Booksellers Association describes on their site: Each year, hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite hand-sell books of the year. These are the Southern books …
Imagine, instead, a world
Imagine, instead, a world in which this kind of respect and learning was the hallmark. From the website on which I found the video: An Argentinian bank, Banco Provincia, recently produced an advertisement that is not only sympathetic towards the place of transgender people in society, but avoids the snark …
Choose the tuxedo, four years later…
Thanks to Amy Stiefvater for pointing me to this story of a girl refused when she wanted to wear a tuxedo to her prom. This is ridiculous. What year is it? 2009? HAVEN'T WE GOT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN LEGISLATE CLOTHING? Amy tells me that already people have …
This is for Jodi “moo moo head”
Tessie and Foo Foo Head from Patti Digh on Vimeo. My friend Jodi broke her leg bone, one of those big ones, one of the ones she usually stands up on. Tessie made a little video for her, to cheer her up. I love her ending. I also love her …
