The butcher interview is in the works! The butcher and I are conspiring to get it into shape for blog publication. Meanwhile, I’ve been working at the writing lab as ye olde writing tutor. And, I’ve been thinking a lot about writing anxiety lately. Not because I’m in the middle of it, actually (Huzzah!) but […]
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Something has been missing here at Nola Studiola. We’ve got almost everything: snarky comments, interviews with courageous writers, a thrilling love story with a broad-chested deep sea diver. What’s missing? Oh, yeah! Food. Understandably, the link to food somehow got lost along the way. Some curators at Nola Studiola have continued the food thread, and […]
I work at a writing lab at a community college here in the Crescent City. There are lots of fun moments in the writing lab. There are also a lot of awkward ones, because unlike a classroom, the teachers and students in the lab aren’t a part of a coherent community, and oftentimes you have […]
Wendy Darling sat in a bedroom on the top floor of an old farmhouse in the middle of Nebraska, where the sky cups the edges of eyesight and fields rustle en masse to imitate the sounds of the sea that used to be here 65 million years ago. She texted Lost Boy: “Do you want […]
There’s a side story in the Story of Lost Boy the deep sea diver and Wendy Darling, the Alison of this blog. At first glance, it might seem to anyone reading these next lines (including Lost Boy) that it is an unrelated side story, one that belongs to the side–way, way to the side–but actually, […]
I decided that I needed to meet Lost Boy. I told him that I had an active imagination, and I was afraid of concocting a story about us that wasn’t rooted in reality. He wrote back that he understood, and he’d like to meet me, as well. “Very much so,” he typed. I believed him […]
After the love story ends (and can finally begin!) next wekk, NolaStudiola will feature several interviews that return to NS’s culinary roots. This time, the theme will be butchery, and the first interview is with Jamie Smith, butcher at family-owned and run Bluescreek Farms of Columbus, Ohio. “One of the reasons we raise our animals better […]
What do I do when I’m afraid? I revise. I have revised the story of my nanny stint in Denver to sound like it was a heroic act of risk taking in the name of pursuing my dreams. “I left my cousin’s house to live with friends and work on my novel every day for […]
WordPress informs me that I have revised the last post 30+ times. With each revision of this or any other piece of writing, I do not necessarily make more sense, nor am I necessarily more honest. In fact, it often works backwards. I am writing the story about how I fell in love. This is […]
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