Month: August 2010

Before moving to Seattle a few months ago we had 2 pieces of furniture in America, a tiny Ikea coffee table and a set of drawers we picked up at a yard sale. We now have many things, a couch, a chair, a soda stream machine, an espresso machine, a good mattress, all the essentials….…

Hooray hooray, my glasses arrived. What is wrong with my current glasses you might well ask. Well, I let you decide for yourself. Last time my glasses broke in the act of folishly cleaning them with a soft cloth(Oh no melon, my glasses broke) I just couldn’t wait for new glasses and shelled out $50…

I’ve been making good progress on my novel (working title “The Scent of Memory”) recently and here is my secret weapon. (there is also a secondary whiteboard stuck to the cupboard door in the bedroom) I am able to pace, have random ideas and scrawl them on a wall without any inconvenient getting out a…

Now that I’m posting more regularly I have the heart to check out my website on Google Analytics. The list of search terms lead to my website is always interesting. The prize for best search term is… life detangle blog -hair -pigeon -sun -necklaces Oh internet you are a strange strange creature. I mean really?…

Daily Science Fiction, a new digital science fiction magazine, clearly has good taste because they’ve purchased stories from fellow Portlandian writer pals, Mary Robinette Kowal and David Levine. And now they have bought a story from me! Ok, ok, I’m not a Portlandian anymore, I live in Seattle, but I wrote this story while I…

Something Old and two lots of Something New… Class of ’94 & Class of 2010 https://lizargall.com/2009/03/clarion-blogs/ Now for the borrowed and the blue (and remember Clarion grads are a bit like Brides, it takes at least three years for us to stop talking about it and showing photos to everyone!)

I may have wanted to stick a bunch of cool nouns in the subject heading… you have a point there. My website has been a bit fragmented of late, so here’s what I’ve been up to the past few months. PlayWrite – a funky not for profite I do a whole swag of work for.…