Vitality Stories
A Tiger Drive Thanks
It takes a village to write and publish a book. Here are the people and groups who are recognized in Tiger Drive.
Acknowledgments
Finishing a book requires soda, licorice, yogurt covered peanuts, magazines, glue-sticks, alligator skin, earplugs, candles, walks, a timer, a door, two saw horses, a fitness ball, The Civil Wars, and olive branches. But mostly, it takes a village of believers, coaches, supporters, and collaborators. Continue reading
Vitality Stories
Crazy Happenings at the Library
My exam and other bizarre results
So today was the day: the day of my proctored New York Real Estate Exam. I’ve studied for the past several days (months if you count the required 75 hours of an online course that all but made me bonkers with cartoon lessons). This test has kept me from writing, from reading a good book, from doing nothing. I’m so happy to remove the idea of taking a test–something I haven’t done now for decades–from my energy field. Anyway, the exam required a proctor, and my proctor was the wonderful Mr. Tom at the Tompkins County Library in Ithaca, New York, and…I PASSED! Yahoo!
And then the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me at a library happened, and it involves a novel I previously read and loved by Scott Wilbanks: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster. Continue reading
Vitality Stories
You Win Some, You Tattoo Some
And the winner is…
Two weeks ago, I shared my perspective on tattoos and how I was having a tattoo drawn for a character, WJ Sloan, in Tiger Drive. Like many tattoos are intended to be, the tattoo has special meaning to the character and having it extracted from my imagination and put on paper (or in this case, digital format) has made me appreciate this complex character even more, and as someone who has no plans to ever get a tattoo, I now also appreciate the work that goes into a tattoo. Continue reading