I looked at my calendar and realized that in the next few weeks, Alison Saar, Umberto Eco, and Lynda Barry are coming to my town. I looked in my yard and realized my tulips had big heads of yellow. Nice.

Even though, I skipped a couple of lectures I was planning on attending this week because I couldn't stand to sit in the dark listening to strangers when it was sunny outside, I am looking forward to absorbing and sorting through Saar and Rushdie and Eco and Barry and the tulips and the weeds and the bugs and the people on my bus.

My sketchbook is filling and I'll share some pictures soon, but I'm racing to finish the last of my three short stories (sure it doesn't sound like much) for the fiction seminar I've been taking this semester. I've been impressed with the ideas shared around this workshop table and I think it's made me a better writer (if a less frequent blogger)...oh well.

Take care, troublemakers...
Rachael