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Comment on The stages of research, from near drowning to scuba diving by Kalyani

Kalyani — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:13:26 +0000

Anjali – yesterday, I was gasping and coughing in research for my novel and today I’m scuba diving in a short story….multiple projects help keep my head above water! Thanks for sharing your process!

Comment on On building one’s village by Where is my magic writing cloud at the top of the tree? « I Am the People

Where is my magic writing cloud at the top of the tree? « I Am the People — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:35:59 +0000

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The Commune | In the Soup — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:43:41 +0000

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Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by anjalimd

anjalimd — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:04:05 +0000

Dara, there were a fair number of mosquitoes in the evening. However, that was only really a problem for us in that we had a studio “casita” and therefore had nowhere to go, other than the porch, once K was asleep. In the end, it worked out fine. We went to bed early and caught up on sleep.

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by Dara

Dara — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:01:26 +0000

Uh-oh, I have scary (but funny) foreshadowings of our trip to Vieques next month. Mosquito-ey? Who said anything about mosquito-ey?!? If I am able to laugh as much during that trip as I was during this essay, I’ll have fun. Relax? Probably not. Have (some) fun? Yes. We still want to try to travel WITH you sometime. Maybe we could sic V on K and see how K deals with V’s demands! That could be amusing . . .

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by anjalimd

anjalimd — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:13:29 +0000

Ack, another book idea? Do you know how many I already have? At the current rate of 10 years per book, I’ve got two publishing lifetimes ahead of me.

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by anjalimd

anjalimd — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:12:40 +0000

Ah Nancy, you know me. It’s hard for me to stay close to home. We do go to the Cape quite often (in fact probably 5-6 times in the past 7 years) but the pull of other places is too hard to resist. As for friends, yes, that’s the key. We’ve done many trips with our quasi commune, and it makes the whole difference. In fact, we’re headed somewhere with them later this year.

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:34:24 +0000

p.s. and please expand this essay into a book!

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:32:46 +0000

Anjali, that story makes for wonderful reading! I love it, as I always love what you write. Here’s the solution: stay close to home. Rent a cottage near some water on the Cape. And bring an active and intrepid friend. For us it was Christina Pitts. If anyone didn’t feel like hiking (I want to stay home in my nightgown today), or whatever, Christina had already gone up the trail and back a couple of times. Her energy and enthusiasm unfailingly infused the trip with a sparkle that was hard to ignore.

Comment on To those who might (and do) ask: no, vacation with young children is not relaxing. by anjalimd

anjalimd — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:25:21 +0000

Hey, soup lady, didn’t I try many times to entice you to join us? You think we LIKED leaving you behind?