Buckling to the popular demand of two (count ’em: 2!) readers, I’m posting the notes I used in my talk on campus yesterday about why and how I write. I extemporized a lot, so some of what’s below didn’t get across. Plus more slipped in.  But this is the jist.

One far away and far off, one nearby and soon. (1) BlogHer LesFam ChiTown MeetUp. BlogHer, for those who don’t know, is an online community of and for women who blog, and BlogHer, as a thing you might “go to,” is their bodacious annual conference. More about ’em at their About page

With the update to WordPress 2.7.1 (the blogging template I use for this blog), we now seem to have odd-bodkin question marks (�) sprinkled throughout the posts.  I’ve vacuumed them off the stuff currently on the home page, and will slowly (slowly!) vacuum them off the posts I think someone