Bill Loehfelm's Blog, page 48
August 28, 2014
Home Sweet Home
Today is That Day in New Orleans, that day nine years ago when the levees broke. This year, instead of elegy, I offer a new challenge.
I bet most of you, if not all of you, have something you want to do that you’ve been putting off - until you get the time, until you get the money, you know the drill. Not something big, not the trip to Mexico or Paris, but something small around where you live that caught your interest and your imagination: a matinee on a weekday, a new restaurant or an old favorite you’ve neglected, an exhibition at a gallery downtown, a hike in the state park, a concert at a club that maybe means staying out a bit too late. That thing that makes you say, Man, I’d really like to…Man, I wish I could…
My challenge to you? Let the good times roll.
Do it. Do it today. Do it this weekend. Do it with someone you love. Call out sick. Spend the money. Because next week, next month, tomorrow - they usually come, they probably will, but sometimes they don’t and you’re left with the saddest words: “If only … “
I was going to call it the K+9 Challenge, but let’s do better than that. Let’s call it the Home Sweet Home Challenge. Do it. Nobody is gonna have your fun for you.
We still here, us. Home. Now and forever.
We still here, us. Home. Now and forever.
August 21, 2014
Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge for Team Gleason
Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge for Team Gleason
August 15, 2014
Issue 43--Fiction by Michael Connelly/Interview with Daniel Silva
What happens when someone starts hunting women in Maureen Coughlin’s New Orleans neighborhood?
Find out in the new short story, “Let It Hurt.”
August 12, 2014
First, if you were a student in my English class between...
First, if you were a student in my English class between ‘91 and ‘00, you know what Robin Williams and his role as John Keating in particular, meant to me. It’s a big reason, though not the only reason, you had to sit through all that Whitman, though truth be told I discovered Uncle Walt in high school in the ’80s.
Second, if you’re going to hate on someone who died from depression (rich and famous or not), which is in fact a health issue and monster and a killer despite the fact it doesn’t get its own color, or car magnets, or its own awareness campaigns from major league sports and credit card companies, and isn’t covered in most health insurance plans, please hit that unfriend or unfollow button. Because you don’t know me and we are not friends.
August 8, 2014
Got my galleys today. Step by step it becomes a book. What do...
Got my galleys today. Step by step it becomes a book. What do y’all think of the radical new cover?
August 5, 2014
Putting in time tonight on the therapist’s couch. #music...
Putting in time tonight on the therapist’s couch. #music #drums #rocknroll
August 4, 2014
"And a river runs through it."
On the banks of the Delaware...
"And a river runs through it."
On the banks of the Delaware River, near Harmony, PA. #river #summer
July 23, 2014
munchies:
New Orleans Bartenders Are Genteel Amid Chaos
New...
New Orleans Bartenders Are Genteel Amid Chaos
New Orleans bartenders are the best in the world, but I’m also completely biased.
Seconded.
