The day after: thoughts on my Month Impossible

NY – Long Island: Belmont Park – Finish Line Originally uploaded by wallyg Today, I did not have to write a massive number of words for a crappy first draft of a novel. I didn’t have to draw anything. I planned to write a blog post, but I was not required to do so. I’ve …

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-two, Pie!

Pie! Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey And how did the pies turn out? Fantastic. Actually, come to think of it, I didn’t have any of the pumpkin pie, but because the filling didn’t all fit in the pie shell I had to cook the overflow in a custard cup. That’s going to be a fabulous breakfast …

Month Impossible: Day Nineteen, studying Spook and getting serious about the novel

Today I tried to sketch Spook, my other cat. Officially, Sammy is my cat, and Spook is Sammy’s cat. When I first got Sammy, she was cooped up all alone during the day — I worked in a real office then — and when I came home and tried to write or do anything she …

Month Impossible: Day Sixteen

A few weeks ago, I traveled to Seattle for the annual LFM Alumni Conference. LFM stands for Leaders for Manufacturing, which is a program within the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I graduated in 1997. I attended a few of the conferences after graduation, and although I always had a wonderful experience — great …

Month Impossible: Day Fourteen

Necklace Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Almost halfway through my month of impossible challenges. It’s not quite time yet to reflect on the wisdom/stupidity of these things I’ve set out to do. So instead: Here is a drawing of a necklace that my sister Laura gave me. People tell me that I’m stylish, funky, hip, fun. …

Month Impossible: Day Thirteen

The John Cleese Plant Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey A couple of years back — 2003? — I subscribed to John Cleese’s website. This meant I could watch subscriber-only content on the site, humorous videos and such, and participate in chats with Mr. Cleese. I found the site hard to navigate and the content sort of …

What drives me to you is what drives me insane

Weeks (months?) ago, Caroline of Pinky’s Paperhaus tagged me for a list-meme thing, and it’s well past time I responded. Here are the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about …

Thoughts on “Mezzulah, 1946”

I saw "Mezzulah, 1946" at City Theatre recently. It’s a fun play, upbeat and entertaining. Crux of the plot: It’s 1946, and the men returning from World War II have reclaimed their jobs, displacing the women who filled them in the meantime. All except for a girl named Mezzulah, who is a crack electrician at …

A Picasso at the City Theatre

1. I have two Picassos. Of course they are reproductions, and small ones at that, little prints in beat-up frames. My grad school roommate Sharon gave them to me — she found them in an antique shop. They depict two harlequins, one on a horse and one with a black mask in hand. The one …