Last week, when I was in DC, I was there for a bookseller’s conference called Winter Institute. It was the 6th annual one, so we call it Wi6, and because my brain is weird, I spent the whole week singing, “now I’m feeling so fly like a Wi6.” The whole thing was really well done, [...]
Archive for the ‘Drop Everything And Read’ Category
3 Jan
Ants Marching
So this is what I do now: Leave the pool to drive to the train station no later than 7:40am (I’m not even going to tell you how early I get up to do the swimming) Get to the train station in 10 minutes with enough time to buy my ticket, pay for parking, and [...]
5 Oct
The Wired
I just got home from my bookseller trade show in Baltimore, the most appropriate city for literary types to meet and greet because it’s the only city I can think of with a major pro sports team that has name derived from literature. My purpose in attending the show was just to have some fun [...]
14 Sep
Inspired
What a weekend. Or rather, what a past few days. I’m still not working a regular job, not that I ever was when I was selling insurance. Back then I was just getting dressed up in the suit, driving to the office and pretending I was making money by making lots of phone calls and [...]
20 Oct
Multi-media
Holy cow, I did absolutely nothing on Sunday, only leaving the house once to go grocery shopping and once to attempt a run, although my breathing issues procluded me from going longer than 20 minutes, so I can’t even count it. What I did do is spend a lot of time reading, watching, and listening [...]
23 Sep
Home again
I’m back! I had a lovely few days of spending quality time with the Northeast’s finest booksellers. I felt like a rock star, waking up in one city and going to bed in another, and then waking up again not certain of what state I was in. However, I went to bed before midnight every [...]
17 Sep
Mommypants
After work on Friday, I took a journey to the wilds of New Jersey to do some new-apartment shopping with my mother and the IKEA that’s oh so close to where I grew up. Because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted, we took a leisurely stroll through the showroom, where everything’s laid out for [...]
11 Aug
Cat in a box
There’s got to be some phrase, probably in French, to describe what happens when one learns a new word, phrase, or concept and then sees said word, phrase or concept everywhere one goes. For instance, my mother learned the alternate definition of the word “cougar” and then she heard it everywhere, and subsequently found a [...]
