A chocolate chip granola bar is not a chocolate chip scone.
Working at home is good until you realize that you have torn the entire house apart as a means of not working. This has become a large-scale reorganization project (how did we get so much STUFF?), and you don't particularly feel like putting it back together. And then you are trapped in the tornado aftermath you created.
89 degress and breezy is nothing like 99 degrees and humidity.
A line from Sylvia Plath
"You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe/In which I have lived like a foot"
is not a line from John Berryman
"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
An orange is also not a chocolate chip scone.
Thus, a field trip is in order. To find the things that are not like the other things, those things you already have and want less of.
Hi Sarah. I've recently returned from several months abroad and finally have had time to settle down and enjoy your absolutely wonderful writing. I look forward to holding one of your books in my hands. (Reading online is fine, but I prefer the more tactile experience of a book and a generous collection of your brilliant stories all in one.)
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Thank you, Shirah. So nice to hear from you. I'm sure your travels will produce all kinds of great stories. (I'm teaching travel writing this weekend at the Writers' Center if you have any interest.) Take care...
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