http://www.marssie.com marssie mencotti Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:30:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have joined the army of Nanowrimos. A country of adjective accumulators. A land of language listers. The territory of writing terrors. I am writing a novelette of 50,000 words in 30 days and tonight, right on schedule I have competed laying down 3400 of the ... http://www.marssie.com/2007/11/02/no-no-nano/ Zooey is how Halsted spelled kitty's name at the vet, instead of Zoe. I thought it was so adorable that I still spell out Zooey when I call them. I put it on her tags. But Tom has changed it to the standard spelling so yet another bit ... http://www.marssie.com/2007/09/23/zo-zo/ Yes, that is part of the title song of the musical we saw in previews a few nights ago. I probably shouldn't comment here because we know one of the actors who worked very hard to make unworkable material work. I could review it here but I haven't ... http://www.marssie.com/2006/10/01/kama-kama-kama-sutra/ Reading The Old Curiousity Shop by Charles Dickens and I'd like to share an excerpt from Chapter the Fortieth: "He had already had a misgiving that the inconstant actors in that dazzling vision had been doing the same thing the night before last, and would do it again that night, and ... http://www.marssie.com/2006/03/12/were-all-going/ I was working in the office the other day and the television was tuned to WTTW. It was pledge week. Most of the time that's a pretty okay thing. Lots of Monty Python and other special programming. But there is a dark side. NPR often has self-help "gurus" (when did ... http://www.marssie.com/2006/03/08/the-power-of-nah/ I have been through all of the emotions one could feel about holidays: feared them, loved them, hated them, anticipated them, dreaded them and finally accepted them. It's amazing how calm that can make you feel when you finally strip away the emotions and enjoy them for what they ... http://www.marssie.com/2005/12/21/holidays/ Of course, naturally, without a doubt, never any question, sure thing, right away, no problem. Reassurances that all will go well. I am only certain that nothing is certain. Is Sadie gone? I feel her behind her door watching her soap operas, waiting to go bowling, ... http://www.marssie.com/2005/11/11/certainly/ We closed "Portia Coughlan" yesterday at the Irish American Heritage Center. To be a part of this production was so comforting and warm in a way that only a cold dark play can be. The people I worked with for the first time and the ones I knew ... http://www.marssie.com/2005/11/07/all-atwaddle/ The faces of Hurricane Katrina haunt me. I spend altogether too much time thinking about how the things we supposedly own and the place we live define who we are. Some have forgotten how to exist and love without things. Some have been shockingly reminded that who ... http://www.marssie.com/2005/09/09/haunted/ Zooey is feeling much better. Of course, she is dealing with the humiliation of having half of her fur shaved off. She's eating, whisking her tail angrily at me and taking her antibiotic like a trooper - storm trooper, that is. Tomorrow we start her on the ... http://www.marssie.com/2005/07/30/saturday-morning/