It’s the fleeting, sweet season when I get to watch TV with my brother. Just the other night, we caught the end of The Fifth Element (“This move is so ’90s. I love it,” said my infant brother, born in 1990). Then we watched part of Pretty In Pink, including the scene in history class […]
Thrifting
“A Modern Feminist Southern Bombshell”: An Interview With The Dictionary Project’s Lisa O’Neill
Earlier this year, I was invited to do an author interview for Lisa O’Neill’s blog, The Dictionary Project. It was a treat to geek out about the dictionary for an audience of kindred logophiles. Lisa (pictured above; photo by Amanda Sapir) recently chatted with WanderChic about the art of bibliomancy, the joys of Tucson, and […]
How To Be a Tourist In Your Own Town: Slow the Heck Down (in Spokane’s Perry District)
Natalie Goldberg’s creative writing handbook Writing Down the Bones includes a chapter called “A Tourist in Your Own Town.” Natalie Goldberg is Buddhist, and her book is a Buddhist book. The short chapters drop some wisdom on you and then leave you to contemplate the white space or a lotus blossom. The gist of Goldberg’s […]