Here's to Girlfriends

Top 5 Reasons to Visit Elliott Bay Book Co this Saturday
5) Saturday is National Bookstore Day. . . . 3) Elliott Bay Book Co might move. (Boo hoo hoo.) . . . 1) Yours truly will be reading at Elliott Bay Books, a great way to support the store.

Don't forget to vote
Tomorrow we go to the polls. Unless you live in Seattle, like I do, where polling booths don't exist anymore. In which case tomorrow we go to the mailbox. The big blue one. In time for a proper postmark. Doesn't exactly give the same sense of community walking to my local polling place used to. But at least, unlike in some countries, we get to vote.

The Grass is Always Greener, Meaner, and Leaner on the Other Side
A single, footloose-and-fancy-free friend, who seems to have an inordinate amount of time on his hands, forwarded me this NY Times article called "The Referendum" by Tim Kreider. It is excellent. It talks about the difference between single folks and married-with-kids folks, and how they envy/disdain/judge/misperceive each other.

Author Reading in the Bay Area for The Motion of the Ocean
We're checking the kids with the grands and heading down to the Bay Area for a little work, a lot of play this weekend. Book Passage, one of the west coast's best book stores, will host me on Saturday to talk about my book, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, & a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife. Hoping to do a bit of book browsing there myself--I love that place.

When Kids Talk in Metaphor
Baking cookies with the ">Bungle of Joy for her school's mumble grumble cough cough cough bake sale. (No offense to school bake sales. I'm just totally baking impaired.) Anyway, here's the convo that ensued...