The cabbie, with one hand pressed firmly on the horn and the other making exasperated gestures, crammed his way between a city bus and a gray Rolls Royce while keeping up a running Senegalese-accented and highly colorful dialogue with a colleague on the phone. Dirty snow from last week’s storm fought with piles of black […]
writer's life
Sundance Stories
One of the perks of living near Salt Lake City is getting to experience the Sundance Film Festival as a local. As a local, I don’t have to battle parking on Park City’s tiny uphill-both-ways mining-town streets, pay exorbitant prices for a hotel room, or even have to upgrade my wardrobe to consist entirely of […]
There Are Libraries
There are libraries. And then, there are libraries. A couple of weeks ago, I found myself at a business meeting in Boston. (Okay, I didn’t just wake up and find myself there. That sounds like the start of a thriller movie starring Scarlett Johannson. I actually booked the flight and flew there on purpose. Better? […]
10 Signs You Weren’t Too Old to Attend Last Night’s Punk Rock Concert
By Kelley Lindberg I can’t get enough of these guys! The Offspring at The Complex, Salt Lake City 2014 1. You’re proud of yourself for standing for 5 hours because it was general admission. 2. You made it home with both shoes. (Not everyone did.) 3. You survived the mosh-pit circle, which you accidentally got shoved […]
Alone But Not Lonely
Yesterday, I got the wind knocked out of my writing sails. This morning, a writing friend breathed a little wind back into my sails and got my rudder pointed in the right direction again. This is why I have writing friends. I know writing is supposed to be a lonely profession. I know I’m supposed […]
Shaking Off January
Creativity. That fickle tease. On the one hand, lately I’ve been feeling like my creativity has evaporated into the atmosphere and is never coming back. On the other hand, I was telling my son this afternoon that relationships are like building computers from scratch – before you take home a box of well-intentioned but random […]
