kate rothwell

work supplies: box o' unused Kleenex -- yes bag for nasty used Kleenex-- yes advil --yes lukewarm cup of coffee and lukewarm bottle of water-- yes work clothes: battered old Kid's View teeshirt with boy1's sweats and boy2's school spirit sweatshirt-- yes clove of peeled garlic jammed in left ear-- yes okay, time to write some romantic smut. Maybe later I'll write about some of the books I read this weekend but I doubt it. Glass houses and all. But I'm grouchy enough to say enough with the meat sandwiches. If the plot doesn't call for two guys to be all over the heroine, then don't. Just don't. No more throwing things in just to reach that E or X rating at Ellora's. Make It Integral To The Story and Characters. Fine, all right, if you must put in the wandering-from-the-point sex, then let us know in the warning. ( warning: Hot Smutty Sex also HSS occasionally unrelated to actual character development and story line) I admit I need a checklist to ...

okay look, if you owe me an email--and you know who you are--send it along or I will sulk. I mean it. I'm not planning a tiny snit, either. I'm talking heavy duty sulking with so many passive aggression overtones, even the dog will notice the sighs and snorts. I'm off to eat the chocolate goop I made yesterday. (Heavy cream, egg yolks, bittersweet chocolate. Heated until perfect) The mousse-y goop is going to instantly add four pounds to my body and it's all your fault. Hope you can live with yourself.

Oh Lordy, the store is gone .. Here are other things that do--or don't, but should--choke me up: 1. I used to pass a high school (years ago we're talking) when the buses left to haul the kids home, and the sight of all those big yellow buses just made me feel all choked up, the way some people feel when they see the flag. A kind of proud to be a part of it thing. Now I have kids who ride those buses, and my only reaction when I see the big yellow line is, "crap. I have to wait forever." No more snivelling. 2. Kiss of the Spiderwoman . For some reason that movie reduced me to such a puddle, I had to wait to leave the theater until long after the credits. That kind of total melt down never happened before with a movie and hasn't since. 3. Ch arlotte's Web . The book. My husband had never read it so I read it aloud to him when we went on a trip. We got to the end and he had to pull over because we were both snuffling. He wouldn't admit it, though. 4. Casablan...