Uh-Oh
January 26th, 2011
I just had the most amazing conversation. Naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot about being a parent and have been asking trusted friends with kids what they’ve learned—and are willing to share, with the added request to please not scare the shit out me. This morning I had a chat with [...]
Loving You Is Easy
January 18th, 2011
Baked dill pickle chips, my beloved brother Shane, reading Margaret Atwood snuggled up in bed…there are a few pieces of my Canadian past that, when present in my life in New York, fill my heart with the feeling of “home.” Wednesday night I had a new Canadian-in-NYC experience: Sarah McLaughlin [...]
Trucker Mouth
January 11th, 2011
This is how bad it is. When I was writing Girl on Top I doubled the amount of swear words I use knowing that the publisher would want to reign me in regardless if I used 10 or 100. I wanted to have some negotiation room so I used more “jackasses” than [...]
No Shame
January 4th, 2011
Apparently becoming a mother is not going to improve my standards for television. Watching The Bachelor (as I do every season) and I seriously want to shake these girls silly. To all contestants (or anyone who thinks it’s OK to jump into a new beau’s arms or state, upon meeting, that you’re [...]
