Dear Sen. Obama,
I really admire you. I've had high hopes, along with all the other Dems starving for an inspiring, ELECTABLE leader, ever since that famous convention speech. So, pardon me while I express my deep disappointment in your response to the SCOTUS ruling on the DC gun law.
What were you thinking??
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PAULA WHYMAN
I'm a writer living in the Washington, DC, area. My work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including The Gettysburg Review, Gargoyle, Writes of Passage: Coming of Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review, in The Washington Post, and on NPR's "All Things Considered."
For more information, please see the Bio page.
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Selected Works
Fiction
A young woman struggles with an unplanned pregnancy.
Sexual and racial tensions in a classroom threaten to explode as a young teen faces choices that will haunt her in adulthood. ORDER HERE
Two American teens go on their first European trip and get into trouble.
A young girl in Thailand is sold into prostitution by her mother.
A woman is haunted by events from the past that threaten to disturb her domestic life.
A man battles neighbors to build his dream house, while his son resists the pull of the family heritage.
A psychologist confuses fantasy and reality as she travels alone for the first time after her divorce.
Humor
Dining out with dietary issues, and Twizzlers. From the Washington Post.
KITCHEN SINK LINKS
Washington Independent Review of Books
Washington's nonprofit online book review
Semi-Charmed Life: Surviving at the Center of the Universe
first-person column on absurdities of suburban life
Bethesda World News
Bethesda's own parody newspaper
When the Menu Is a Minefield
Washington Post Food section, on dining out with dietary issues
Ode to the Hand Dryers of La Guardia
guest post for Susan Coll's blog
Rumpus Mini-Interview #19
I interview visual artist Tim Guthrie about his unusual anti-war project.
Work-in-Progress: A blog by Leslie Pietrzyk
Explores the Creative Process
Alternate Sides: A blog by Susan Coll
Adventures Along the Northeast Corridor
Finding Josephine
Writer Dionne Ford's blog
Poetry in the Arts
Publisher of the poetry journal, Ardent! - and fine books of poetry by invitation.
CURIOSITIES: THE BLOG
How come no one wanted to be Charlotte?
June 24, 2008
Four women writers went to the movies last night and saw Sex and the City. (What, you think we only go to readings?)
In the scene where Carrie sits down at the computer and stares at the screen where she has typed
Love.
and she pauses and then adds an ellipsis:
Love...
pauses again, then backspaces out the ellipsis:
Love.
Why were we the only ones who laughed...?
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In the scene where Carrie sits down at the computer and stares at the screen where she has typed
Love.
and she pauses and then adds an ellipsis:
Love...
pauses again, then backspaces out the ellipsis:
Love.
Why were we the only ones who laughed...?
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Wherefore art thou 'Good Humor'?
June 11, 2008
What happened to the Good Humor man? I don't mean, why is he sometimes a woman; what I mean is, what happened to the Good and especially the Humor? Saturday at the pool, the ice cream truck came. (In fact, it came every hour, until I wanted to throttle someone with the nearest SpongeBobsicle. Mark my words: There will be an ice cream truck-rage incident if this continues.)
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So that's why they call it "writer's" block...
June 6, 2008
On Writer's Almanac this morning, Garrison Keillor quoted Thomas Mann:
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
