Where I’ve Been…
Hey everybody. Apologies for not keep up. I’m in Ann Arbor now for the Ann Arbor Book Festival, which I take in each year as an excuse to visit my hometown. Already, I’ve seen Francine Prose speak, had a lovely chat with Dan Wickett of Emerging Writer’s Network and make good use (honey banana smoothie and rasberry bran muffin for breakfast. Hmmmm) of my membership at the People’s Food Co-Op (somehow overlooked in the first, say, 18 years I lived here) the I’m back next Wednesday, home for a week and a half then off to New York for BEA and the announcement of my new business.
What new business, you ask? I need to wait on that until we’ve launched but trust me, you’ll be hearing plenty about it here. More than you would ever want to know.
Second book is in the hands of agent Jud now. All is well there.
Mostly I’m just glad it’s spring. May is among my favorite months of the year, probably a holdover from school and summer being withing reach but also, May says possibility. If spring is about rebirth, everything new, May is about everything trying to walk, to stretch and see what being alive means.
I look out the window of my family’s place here in Ann Arbor, at the Ann Arbor News building, where I interned as I high school student, the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum where I volunteered the summer before I went to college and the marquee of the Michigan Theatre where I’ve been seeing movies for 25 years, and I know this is where I learned to be the person I am, where I learned how to live.
I’m proud of that, proud to be from here and strive to carry what I’ve learned with me when I go back home