What I Didn’t Tell You in the Last Blog
Posted on: 04-Jun-10 07:00
Okay, so there’s always another thing to tell; you just decided to delete it from the telling. It doesn’t go with the tone you are trying to create. Right?
So here it is…the gory little detail.
I went to Hotwire to book a hotel for a night on the way up to the lake. Given the accident I wrote about (I’m here, but the car’s not), we decided to drive to the lake at a reasonable pace. You know, stop for a bite to eat, and a good night’s rest.
When I saw the hotel price, two stars and all, I was like, Gosh, what a deal!
My heart sank when I saw the place. I had just coached Paul, “Ask for an upgrade. It never hurts.” One glance and I knew no upgrade here.
It was the kind of place you might just stay in when you’re eighteen. Carpet ragged, bed sagging and low to the floor. One upright chair. A drizzle for a shower. Flies inside when you open the door.
A burger and wine later, we hit the sack. The sack groaned. Paul looked expectant, like an eighteen-year-old. Here? Tonight? Really?
So here it is…the gory little detail.
I went to Hotwire to book a hotel for a night on the way up to the lake. Given the accident I wrote about (I’m here, but the car’s not), we decided to drive to the lake at a reasonable pace. You know, stop for a bite to eat, and a good night’s rest.
When I saw the hotel price, two stars and all, I was like, Gosh, what a deal!
My heart sank when I saw the place. I had just coached Paul, “Ask for an upgrade. It never hurts.” One glance and I knew no upgrade here.
It was the kind of place you might just stay in when you’re eighteen. Carpet ragged, bed sagging and low to the floor. One upright chair. A drizzle for a shower. Flies inside when you open the door.
A burger and wine later, we hit the sack. The sack groaned. Paul looked expectant, like an eighteen-year-old. Here? Tonight? Really?
Table of Contents for Blog Articles
- Beginning of my Writing Life
- Should I begin a website?
- Three Steps to Creativity
- Communicating Effervescence
- The Fallen Leaves of Books
- After a Virus Has Passed
- Sex, Horses, and Breathing
- Feast for Seven Women
- Talks with My Cousin Dorothy
- What’s in a tidbit?
- The Value of Layers
- Tweaking Facts to Create Fiction
- Thanksgiving
- Thinking of Our Summer Cabin at the Lake
- Christmas Is Coming
- Jo
- Roland
- Christmas Cards
- The Pinch of Christmas
- Passed Away
- “I’m here, but the car ‘s not.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed; A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
- About Happy Times in Norway
- Satisfied
- Innocence Lost
- Picnic in the Park
- They Don’t Make Boots Like They Use To
- Pale Nouns
- Ballet’s Jacques Revisited
- Breakfast at Dottie’s True Blue Café
- Jewels and Clocks
- Sipping Wines in the Valley on St. Patrick’s Day
- Disappeared
- Dreams and Me
- A Design Project Takes Shape
- Value
- PRETTY SHOES
- Shapes and Color Inform
- Chalk Painting on the Sidewalk
- Roommates
- The Importance of Siblings, My Cousin, and Old Friends
- Anticipation = Work + Work
- What I Didn’t Tell You in the Last Blog
- It’s Tuesday already?
- GROUPS
- Delia’s Rug
- UPNORTH AUTHORS CIRCLE
- Headstones
- Bad Backs
- My Very First Pie
- Are We Ready?
- I Can’t Breathe
- Meeting the Carvers
- FAMILY RECIPES HIT THE ARCHIVES
- A Place I Loved
- Highlights of a Trip to Madeline Island, Largest of the Apostle Islands
- What Am I Writing Now?
- Teaching Kids to Connect to Art
- Website as Forum
- ENCOURAGING WRITING SUCCESS FOR EIGHTH GRADERS
- BACK IN LAWRENCE
- A “Published Book” by Students for Students of Students Has Impact
- Thoughts from a Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Buttercup Hill
- BENEATH THE ARC OF A DOUBLE RAINBOW
- ME AND MY SIBLINGS
- Why Learning the Ethical Culture Way Sticks
- Chestnuts
- An Apology and a Promise
- England Part I
- England Part II
- England Part III
- England Part IV
- England Part V
- England Part VI
- England Part VII
- England Part VIII
- England Part IX
- England Part X
- England Part X1
- England Part X11
- England Part X111
- England Part XIV
- Paris Part 1
- Paris Part II
- Paris Part III
- Paris Part IV
- Norway Part 1
- Norway Part II
- Norway Part III
- Norway Part IV
- Norway Part V
- Norway Part VI
- Norway Part VII
- Norway Part VIII
- Norway Part IX
- Norway Part X
- Norway Part XI
- Norway Part XII
- Norway Part XIII