Ann Shayne's Blog, page 16
March 31, 2012
Tyler Speaks!
Dear Kay, Just wanted to share yesterday's NPR interview with one of my favorite writers, Anne Tyler. (My friend Joe sent this along--at this point, Joe functions as an oracle, because he will send me a link that dovetails...
March 19, 2012
The Last Day of Winter
Dear Kay, Oh, what a beautiful mornin'! (Sing it, Hugh Jackman!) That ol' weepin' willa is laughin' at me! I love springtime so much. I'm a sucker for it. The redbuds, whitebuds, chickweed, tulips--you can find me out in...
March 10, 2012
The Winner Has Two-Year-Old Twins
Dear Kay, Exotic exotic exotic. I have never read so much exoticism as in the comments everyone left in response to the little contest to win a copy of the BOWLING AVENUE proofs. China, Tortola, New Zealand, the wild...
March 7, 2012
Southernness: The Oxford American versus Garden & Gun--PLUS A GIVEAWAY!
Dear Kay, Thanks for all the questions about the Garden & Gun magazine now currently residing in a busted window of the kitchen. You all got me thinking about that magazine, which got me to thinking about Southernness, and...
March 3, 2012
Near Miss, Four Hits, and a Torcon 9 Craft Project
Dear Kay, Yesterday's tornadoes apparently filled a month's quota on tornadoes for the United States, awful in every way. We in Nashville were lucky to dodge the worst of it, though we did get a midafternoon dose of crazy...
February 29, 2012
Blankets on a Hill
Dear Ann, Tuesday night's knitting party (erm, "class") in Nashville was so dang fun. One sweet moment for me was when Yolanda showed me an album of photos that Liz Thomas had taken of log cabin blankets that Yolanda had...
February 24, 2012
International Standard Book Number 978-0-9852100-0-7
Dear Kay, All right, ALL RIGHT. You have now matched my six-part series on geothermal HVAC installation with a six-part series on the making of Honey Cowls. UNCLE! I GIVE UP! YOU WIN! I solemnly promise that I won't...
February 14, 2012
My Funny Cowlentine
Dear Ann, Lots to report and little time (I have to get dolled up for the Carnival of Love tonight--tickets available at the door! Fried foods! Sexy people! Good cause!), so here goes. New Cowl In Town Honey Cowl Five,...
February 7, 2012
Baby I'm Cowlin' For You
Dear Ann, Let's start with a mood-elevating YouTube shall we? Every time this song shuffles up on my iPod, I can't stop smiling. Makes a girl want to move to Nashville, break in a pair of Frye boots, and stalk...
February 2, 2012
Bring in the Cowls
Dear Ann, Yesterday was a crystalline example of a minor upside of the glaciers melting--60 degrees in NYC on February 1. So I went for a walk on the High Line, and posed for a picture in my personal Honey...
