Monday, August 31, 2009

Home

After being in a strange city for three months, I am home! I feel like the theme song from "Cheers". I have traded big bookstores, close toed shoes, lovely giant grocery stores, good pizza and the frisson of city life for the small town, gossipy drama of the island, transparent air, a warm ocean and green. When I first get back this island seems painted in Kermit the Frog, technicolor green.

It is lovely to be writing in a place where everyone knows what you are doing and is enthusiastically cheering you on. Unfortunately, the two questions are always, "Are you nearly finished?" and "When can I buy it in the bookstore?" Ummm "January 2011?" No one really likes that answer. It is the "2011" that sounds science fictiony far away. In 2011 I will be turning thirty-s... wow, I do not want to finish that sentence.

But honestly, it isn't far away. (Must wear sunblock and buy more wrinkle cream.) It is soon. My editor just wrote to say that she is sending her notes this week. Yikes. I feel like I am getting the most important report card of my life. Cross your fingers!

4 comments:

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  2. You know you're food deprived when you refer to Los Angeles as the land of "good pizza!"

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  3. i know. my perspective is all out of whack. i still think mama celeste is good pizza...

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  4. Not being much of a blogger, I am not sure if it is within blog etiquette to post something not strictly on topic, but somehow I thought you would like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-2TAfM3Fg

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