Jesse and I rode our bikes to “Top of the Park,” a series of summer concerts put on every year in the great town of Ann Arbor. We heard the bluegrass band, “The RFD Boys,” play. We love this band, and lucky for us, they’re in town so we see them a lot. Some of us play golf with some of the members.
I’m teaching myself to weave. Here’s my first attempt. This was made without a loom – a tool I thought for sure would be easy for me to use, but it turns out I’m horrible at following directions. I just cannot do it. So I was thrilled to find this book in the library, and went directly to p. 108 and gave it a shot.
We’re in the thick of what is called, “Long Course,” which took me until the season was almost up to understand that the name comes from the length of the pool, and not the duration of the season. I am sure this was explained to me – at length – in one of the many communications we get from Harper’s swim team. So many things about sports have been explained to me at length. For example, Hadley has been playing soccer since she was three years old, and I still don’t sit on the right side of the field when she plays.
Anyway, let’s enjoy looking at Harper warming up in front of the Michigan “M,” and the Olympics circles. What a thrill. And here she is killing it in one of her best events, the 400 IM. It looks like she’s swimming it alone, but that’s how far ahead she is from the other swimmers.
I wrote the introduction to Coffee+Crumbs’ July newsletter. We had an almost Taylor Swift moment, and it was as heartbreaking as you might imagine for a 16-year-old who loves this gal like an older sister. I made a little something from it though, and I think Hadley did, too. You can read it, here.
I’m putting the finishing touches on my first book writing course that will begin this September. Details will be on the blog soon, and readers will receive the information first. If you have a seed of an idea for a book, and you’re looking for a small group (I’m only taking 8 writers) to write with, this might be the workshop for you. We’ll be working together for the duration of a school year, ending with a Story Slam in May. I can’t wait.
Read:
- Lit by Mary Karr. I’ve stopped at p.317, and I don’t know if I can finish it. I don’t like this book. What’s troubling me though, is that a decade ago I loved it. Why? Why did I like it then, and why don’t I like it now? What happened? What went wrong? I’m so confused.
- The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith, pgs. 1-100
- “Most Just Talk About The Weather,” “Walking Benefit,” “Tao Master,” and “The Widow and the Burial of Peekaboo,” by Dave Malone (from Tornado Drill)
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