
random thoughts of a New Yorker who was born Lithuanian in Texas
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Hey there sunshine!
Sometimes it’s the little things that bring us joy. This tiny little magnet was on a door in an otherwise very boring NYC hallway. The magnet is the size of a thumbnail. And there was another a few doors down - on an ap...
Thoughts on Paris and the Creative Life
It is 6am and I have been back from Paris for less than five hours. I have slept, tidied messes I thought would right themselves, and mostly tossed and turned in my bed, wondering at the greater mean...
Bonjour, mes amis!
it’s like we never left the 1800s except for the halogen-not-gas lamps
I spent a week in Paris! I was thrilled to have been invited to teach a class for Lauren Grodstein’s After the Novel Workshop. (I think that going o...
The five days I spent in Chicago had so many random Lithuanian sightings it is a category of its own.
The David Byrne show had three in my fifteen person audience group - all living in Chicago for around ten years but born in Lithuania....
Labas from Chicagas —
Okay that quip worked better in my brain - Labas is hello in Lithuanian and in the Lithuanian equivalent of “spanglish” - where you run endings onto American words to make them native to your own language, you can add...
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Writer of random madness, joy, and despair who seeks enlightenment through irony: I founded Pen Parentis to help other parents finish their writing projects--come closer, I'll surprise you. (more at mmdevoe.com)
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