The weather has taken on a nice Autumn chill, marking Summer’s impending finish. In memorium, a photo flashback of Summer 2017.
24 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in Living In the Trees Tags: family, Home, photos, summer
The weather has taken on a nice Autumn chill, marking Summer’s impending finish. In memorium, a photo flashback of Summer 2017.
15 May 2017 Leave a comment
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things, writer Tags: Booked podcast, Booked., Elementary school, family, friends, GAMUT Magazine, Hayes, Kids, livius nedin, michael paul gonzalez, mike gonzalez, Ninja Dash, Portsmouth Little Theatre, Richard Thomas, Robb Olson, sunshine, Thunderdome Press
Spring is here. Bursts of activity and creation, from outdoor events to the bright shiny new work of authors, publishers, and all those types that bloom in the sunshine, full of new work and bright words.
Writers and their affiliates (from presses to magazines to podcasts) get hell on the Internet for self-promotion – and a lot of the time, GAWD, rightly so – but sometimes friends are friends, and the PSA/The More You Know message of this post is that when no one is looking, and for no other reason than being good people, this group of miscreants and snake oil salesmen will unblinkingly throw sponsorship money to a 9 yr old in Southern Ohio for an event at his elementary school. And one will blink, and think how lucky, to have “networks” that are more than that word, associates and peers that are friends.
Selflessness is supposed to be its own reward, but here’s my kid kicking some ass at the Ninja Dash obstacle course/fun run. He was sponsored by Booked. Podcast (Livius Nedin and Robb Olson, Thunderdome Press (Mike Gonzalez), GAMUT Magazine (Richard Thomas), his friend Elijah Kasper (from PLT days), Kay & Allen Hayes, and Heather & Jeremy Barker. They expected nothing from him, but he wore a sponsor shirt with all their names.
Thanks to your generosity, my son gets to smash a pie in the face of his favorite teacher on the next-to-last day of school
And yes, since you asked, that green glitter shirt-lettering was all destroyed when I washed it, and the inside of my washing machine looks like a disco.
Happy summer!! And thank you for being a part of my life!!
10 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things
Simultaneous arrival of warm weather and Menacing Hedge’s Spring Edition!
This issue marks the first batch of short fiction selected just by my hand, so I do hope everyone enjoys these six stories. I wade through hundreds of submissions to come up with a handful of perfect diamonds, and it will never cease to amaze me that I get to do this: assemble a banquet of stories written by authors far more adept at both wordsmithing and navigating the imagination.
Spring also marks the first issue with Susan Yount as official Menacing Hedge Artist! Her work is so darkly beautiful.
So have it! Poetry and fiction, sunshine and blood.
Happy Spring!
“Don’t Tell Mom” by Susan Yount
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08 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
The women, real and fictional, past and present, that have and continue to influence me in the very best ways…
31 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
Here we go!
Good luck and piles of hope and willpower and strength to fight in this brave new world.
For now I give you David Bowie, and new stories from my Partner in Crime and I, under a title dedicated to the man himself. Any and all meager proceeds go to International Medical Corps.
Promises in the New Year, to myself and all of you:
1. Write more, and harder.
2. Stay loud, without succumbing to bitterness or pessimism.
3. Keep my son aware of the kindness in him, no matter how the fashion of kindness may change.
4. Point out Nice Times to myself as they happen, as advised by KV’s uncle.
5. Absorb lots of Vitamin D.
6. Read, read, read.
7. Listen, listen, listen.
May your heart be full and kind and strong. See you at the Women’s March!
-Amanda
20 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
1. Serious Moonlight
2. Sherlock
3. Twin Peaks
4. The Women’s March on Washington
5. AWP
6. My son turning 9
7. A Cure for Wellness
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
9. The beach
10. All the stories yet to be written