Monthly Archives: June 2008

50 Words on Buyer’s Remorse

During last week’s Indiana Teachers of Writing National Writing Project Advanced Institute on the University of Notre Dame campus, we had one prompt of “In 50 words, write about buyer’s remorse.” The 50 words motif is fairly popular as it is less intimidating to write 50 words as opposed to 250 words. It’s really a [...]

Coffee Stains: Smug Green Monster

My first real car, the 1988 Ford Festiva of Love, got rear ended by a van full of Amish folk. The current car, the 1993 Ford Escort, hasn’t lived up to the myth-like status of the Festiva–the Northern California nights of a San Francisco Giants hatted Dominos driver blasting the soundtrack to Cats out of [...]