My thoughts on Copyright Law in the US are muddied, as should be expected – this issue is a gnarly motherfucker, to put it bluntly. So many layers of interpretation, obfuscation, when what it really comes down to is this: today, as it stands, your work is only protected as far as you can afford Read more >>

Driving into town this morning for coffee, I nearly picked up a young boy hitchhiking into town with his skateboard under his arm. It’s not uncommon for kids to hitchhike up here – I did it once or twice when I was in high school, never intentionally – I’d be walking to work along the Read more >>

I’m getting a nose job. I’m not sure when, and I have no plans yet to begin the whole process, but after years (a decade really) of thinking about it, I think I’m going to do it. Josh and I were talking the other night, and I owned up to being a champion grudge-holder. To Read more >>

Ender’s Game – I read this when I was eight (thanks, Randy) and it has definitely withstood the test of time. Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality Series The Tommyknockers (and IT – my mom forbade me to read her Stephen King novels, so naturally I devoured them) The Hobbit, the Fellowship of the Ring, and Read more >>

So, I leave for New York tomorrow. I’ll be back Monday. It was sort of last minute, in the sense that I knew two months ago that I would probably have to go, but I didn’t want to think about it so soon after getting back from Greece. The very idea of getting on a Read more >>

It’s been awhile since I’ve written, and all the movement of these passing days merits an update. We have been home from Kansas City for a month, and I am surprised at how much we’ve accomplished, and the enormous amount we have left to do. Between clearing the house out in preparation for some renovations, Read more >>

FRIDAY July 21st Lake Arrowhead Resort, 7pm Located in Lake Arrowhead Village. SATURDAY July 22nd Mtn Calvary Lutheran Church, 2pm Located behind Rim High School Obituary: ANNETTE PRIVETT of Crestline, CA, died Friday, July 14th after a long and brave fight against pancreatic cancer. Beloved daughter of Barbara Carpenter and Albert Nuijens, cherished sister of Read more >>

It is hot. The air outside on the deck is swarming with yellowjackets and no-see-ums and caterpillars dangling on silken threads from the eaves of the roof. Mom sits outside with her books and I flit from inside to outside, out in the yard to check gopher traps and refill the birdbath, back inside to Read more >>

When I lament here that I do not write daily, it isn’t because I think there is some particular merit in regularity. My mother’s days are numbered, and I am afraid of regret. I am afraid of what might happen to my memory if I don’t mark down the moments. Any of them. So today Read more >>

I don’t write here every day. Sometimes I wish I could, but these last few days – well, I’ve been angry. Restless. And when the litany of complaints starts up in my head, there is a rational part of my brain that recoils in horror and says “Brianna, you are perilously close to whining!” Nobody Read more >>