And We Have a Winner!

Four lovely people posted comments in my contest to win a copy of Ayelet Waldman’s Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace. I danced around in a circle, rolled a single die, and Lo! commenter four, Tim is my winner. Congratulations Tim! I hope you and your wife love it. I think it goes especially well alongside Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends. 

Thank you to everyone who entered. Maybe I can scare up some more things to give away around here.

[rummaging…]

ABAW Giveaway: Bad Mother

I have an extra copy of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman. I read this book last year and wrote about it here. Waldman is bravely honest, brash, funny, and heartbreaking, sometimes all at once.

Waldman sent me this book in a twitter contest last year. I want to pass it along. I want to give this book to someone else now, maybe even to YOU.

Drop me a comment below if you think I should send it to you. You don’t have to be a GOOD mother or a BAD mother. You don’t even have to be a mother at all.  Just tell me you’d like to read the book, and I’ll choose a winner at random.  

One entry per person.  Begging and flattery are fine, but they won’t make the result any less random.  

I’ll take entries from now until midnight on January 31, 2011.

Sunday Projects, No Pirates

The rain continues to fall.  As someone said so colorfully this morning, it’s clear and still.  Clear up to our asses and still raining.  I’m doing a little work around the website here, working on some ideas for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest, and doing a little therapeutic knitting.  That’s the first half of a heart from MochimochiLand.  I’m looking for the pencil sharpener.  What do you do when the light is dim and the rain comes down? 

Notes about the blog and a short story, plus a bit of love knitting