Lots of my friends are linking to this quote on their Facebook pages

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners.  I wish someone had told me.  All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.  But there is this gap.  For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good.  It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.  But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.  And your taste is why your work disappoints you.  A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit.  Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.  We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.  We all go through this.  And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece.  It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.  And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met.  It’s gonna take a while.  It’s normal to take awhile.  you just gotta fight your way through.  –IRA GLASS

It’s true.

I’m going to give myself the challenge of writing a new gag every week starting with the appliances in my apartment.

I’ve got quite a lot of material already from this morning’s exploits with the steam valve of our espresso machine.

The costume will be the perfect 50’s housewife dress…

Did I mention I love Anne Taintor.

A Message from the Soccer League

It’s rainy and grey outside, so we check the website to see if the games will be cancelled.

Nope!

ALL GAMES FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 WILL BE PLAYED AS SCHEDULED

If the games are rained out during the day… parents pls. take down your goals!

Have fun!

Yeah!

My Kid loves to play in the rain.

I love to stand in the rain.

Not really…

Well sometimes…

It depends on who else is standing in the rain…

And what kinds of slips and falls the kids do on the wet astroturf.

It’s all clown!

Next Text

I’ve just gotten my confirmation for a creative writing workshop that starts next week.

It’s an advanced class and I was worried that I wouldn’t be to carve out enough writing time.  But now I can!

This is great!

Time Smile

I enjoy rinsing the creme rinse out of my daughter’s hair using a grey plastic elephant shaped watering can that I bought as a prop in South Paris, Maine during that summer when I studied with Avner Eisenberg and Julie Goel back in the last century when Hilary Chaplin and Stanley Allen Sherman were there too and a milestone was acknowledged when Avner realized that this was the first summer session at Celebration Barn in which every single participant had an e-mail address.  Wow.