Comments on: Bringing Aunt Becky Back, Part Number 5-Niner

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:42:28 +0000

i recently found your blog so, yeah, i’m combing through your archives. i also don’t have a life so, there’s that too.

congrats on finding literary agents. i’ve been looking on and off for a little while but that sort of thing is a full-time job. i’m in grad school for a master’s in business, graduate in 5 months and then i’m supposed to get a job or something. ugh. if writing were my full-time job i’d be elated…

By: Mommy on the Spot

Mommy on the Spot — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:10:30 +0000

I really think you should do the freelance writing thing; I think it would help you with your book.

Your plight to find yourself has inspired me. I have found writers’ groups, and just talking with other writers changes my frame of mind. I am also learning the ropes of sending in essays to magazines. If you need a hand, I can share the very little I have gleamed. Just drop me an email.

Don’t give up. You can’t. You can do this.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:17:03 +0000

Huge congratulations to you! Way to go, not only on finding the dream again but on taking steps to make it happen–and not in an “I’m taking action by waiting patiently” kind of way. Several years ago, I was a new mom and (because I believe that somewhere, the answer to everything is written down, if I can just find it) waist deep in parenting magazines. I liked what I saw there and was reminded of my own long-ago writing dreams. So I printed out a few parenting essays I’d been toying with and sent them off to a free parenting magazine–one of the few that would publish people without a list of places they’d already been published. The response? Not a rejection letter, which I totally would have been able to handle. Not even a form rejection letter, which would have been okay. Instead, I received three photocopies (one for each item I had submitted) of their submission guidelines. That’s all. No explanation, just three cruddy photocopies, which I scoured looking for some evidence of what I had done wrong. (Nothing.) I was–and still am–totally insulted. I stopped reading their magazing and completely stopped writing. I admit, my ego is easily shattered, but I know how hard it is to keep trying when it feels like you got slapped for your efforts. So I’m really proud of you for finding meaningful ways to get out there, rather than letting anything less than a “Hell yes, and here’s a giant check” get you down.

And that shirt is awesome. I’m a day care provider, so I might have to cross out the “whore” with a Sharpie, but that might add to its charm.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:23:17 +0000

I would buy the HELL out of that shirt.

By: GingerB

GingerB — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:31:09 +0000

I’m with ya sistah! I’m bringing Ginger back from underneath this 65 pounds and guilt when I think I might take an evening off from being supermom after being supergirl all day at work and out earning my man. What the fuck do I have to feel guilty about?? I do need to be me again. But how to get here? Aye, there’s the rub.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:51:41 +0000

I was reading an article on cracked.com about faux pas that girls commit when they first go on the internet. One of the pieces of advice they gave was to remember that you are not unique amongst girls for being on the WWW. I couldn’t figure out why that bugged me until I read this article. You have such a different take on everything, you seem to have a way of writing that makes me think(which after work is asking a lot.) You are unique amongst girls, women, y-chromosomes. I’m not sure why but keep it up!

By: Dot

Dot — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:26:08 +0000

Congratulations on going back to therapy. I love it. I’m probably going to spend the rest of my life in therapy, because I have so much to deal with. But enough about me. I think this sounds like a very good time to go, since you and the Daver are in transition and you want more out of your life. I hope you find some great insights and solutions!

By: Your Aunt Becky

Your Aunt Becky — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:51:21 +0000

I’m on it. Let’s make this world our bitch, friend.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:50:40 +0000

I think we woke up from the same dream. Me and you both, let’s go….

By: Punk Rock Nurse

Punk Rock Nurse — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:45:41 +0000

I second that emotion