Archive for April, 2007

heading

to the airport soon to pick up the beloved bridge partner.  Originally planned to play a club game tonight, but Shannon’s flight is delayed and so we’ll get to enjoy a long, lazy dinner instead.  Maybe a midnight game against George and Ralph (unlikely, but not impossible).  Tomorrow begins a solid month of bridge leading [...]

Published by stacy on April 30th, 2007 tagged Bridge | Comment now »

oh yeah!

Wow! Finally, schools are getting it!
I love when superstars give back.

Published by stacy on April 30th, 2007 tagged Sports | Comment now »

phew

Birthday weekend, adieu. My photo, cupcakes by Tara.

Published by stacy on April 30th, 2007 tagged Uncategorized | Comment now »

keeping score

Perhaps you know I’ve been struggling with my story. I’d set an impossible goal and written an impossible problem: I’d vowed to write an unwritable book. For sure it was unwritable — the first hundred pages (all the further I’d got) were long, sloppy rambling conversations toward a climax that made no sense. [...]

Published by stacy on April 29th, 2007 tagged Writing | Comment now »

more opening

“Director, please!” comes the anguished cry from the far corner of the room.  Much closer, a heavily-painted eighty-year-old woman hisses “shush!” at a table of old friends having entirely too much fun.  Here and there throughout the sections, someone will have pulled up a chair at the corner of a table.  Contract bridge, at the [...]

Published by stacy on April 27th, 2007 tagged Writing | 5 Comments »