I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain’s Log, Supplemental
I’ve been a staff worker for my church youth group for about eleven years now (yikes, do I feel old!), and we’re pretty close to this current crop of high school kids.
I’ve gotten two graduation announcements from seniors, and Captain Caffeine and I are a bit confused.
In previous years, we’d had seniors whose graduation exercises required tickets for admission, so the graduation announcement was just an announcement, not an invitation. Seniors only got a few tickets for family—sometimes as few as four tickets—so they couldn’t exactly invite their youth staff leaders to attend.
Now this year, my husband and I are wondering—are these announcements or invitations?
In my senior year in high school (let’s not go into how long ago that was), commencement was open, so anybody could go. (Plus it was outdoors, muddy, rainy (most years), in the early evening, and hecka long.)
So … are we invited to these commencements? How can we find out without having to actually call the parents and ask? (How embarrassing would that be?)
I’ve been a staff worker for my church youth group for about eleven years now (yikes, do I feel old!), and we’re pretty close to this current crop of high school kids.
I’ve gotten two graduation announcements from seniors, and Captain Caffeine and I are a bit confused.
In previous years, we’d had seniors whose graduation exercises required tickets for admission, so the graduation announcement was just an announcement, not an invitation. Seniors only got a few tickets for family—sometimes as few as four tickets—so they couldn’t exactly invite their youth staff leaders to attend.
Now this year, my husband and I are wondering—are these announcements or invitations?
In my senior year in high school (let’s not go into how long ago that was), commencement was open, so anybody could go. (Plus it was outdoors, muddy, rainy (most years), in the early evening, and hecka long.)
So … are we invited to these commencements? How can we find out without having to actually call the parents and ask? (How embarrassing would that be?)
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