SquarePeg Books

Category: Random

  • Pity the Spouse of a Writer

    My husband says I look like a different person when I write. Some days I sit and ponder, and he can smell the cranial smoke boiling out of my ears as my brain turns on the problem of removing as many occurrences of the the word “was” from a given…

  • Unexpected Issues

    I was going to spout off about EIN’s today, but my daughter is sick. She woke at 3am with a cough and fever. That means she’s staying home today. And my in-laws have hooked her on an insipid show involving singing vegetables. It’s already difficult writing when I have childroon…

  • Should – Shouldn’t; Would – Wouldn’t; Could – Couldn’t

    Every once in a while (about every other day if I’m lucky, every other hour if I’m feeling particularly manic), I’m stricken with doubts about my writing and making it a BIG THING. A profession. A publicly viewed entity. I’m told that’s normal. I’m told a great many people cycle…