@karenpalmer
Writer, editor, teacher, karenpalmer.com. Memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE (Algonquin Books). NEA, Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize. If I had to choose between reading and eating, I'd be dead in a week. She/her
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What subjective personal embodied attitudinal multi-layered tone in human writing is for.
Good luck AI....
Dreamed about my high school English Teacher (junior year), Miss Cole, who told me that I was smarter than I looked.
Wish I had something to send them. Maybe you do?
Welcome to the club, Ann. Nana-hood is the best.
My all-time favorite review was the one my cousin sent. (Looking forward to reading your novel.)
Remember calling the time?
Heaven.
If we could have that, it would be so wonderful.
Same (my mother's Catholic god will now strike me down for hubris). Also the main reason why I never cheated off anyone else's paper during tests when I was a kid, even if I did not know the answers. I just felt my guesses were a better bet.
Thrilled to hear this, Steve.
It never ends here either. Someday I'm going to snap.
We miss Dudamel!
lol perfect
I've never gotten over her saying to an interviewer that she'd rather be beautiful than smart, because she can fake smart.
Every time I rewatch that show (and god help me, I've done it several times), I'm amazed at how brutally funny it is.
Have taught all her novels, and I can't wait to read this one.
Yes. Looking forward to reliably cooler weather, though the rain will be a problem. Politically, Astoria is about 60/40 liberal. Which used to be just fine, but I don't know how it will play now. There are lots of artists there, which is nice. And the food is good.
Desperately. But once we lose Vinnie's salary, we can't afford to stay.
Photo of Astoria, OR, taken from the top of a hill. This is at the mouth of the Columbia River (the graveyard of the Pacific!) and includes the six-mile long Meglar Bridge to Washington state.
The husband retires in a 3 months, and we are going to return to Oregon. The last time we lived in Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River (the graveyard of the Pacific!), was 2003-2005. It's a nice little town, but it did not go particularly well. Fingers crossed that things will be easier now.
Could not agree more.
As ever, I wish I lived close enough to attend these events.
Ronit Plank interviewed me @ SHE'S UNDER HERE. We had a good conversation about how hard it is to know anyone, including yourself, about moving around in time w/out losing the reader and finding an ending late in the writing and, especially, on keeping the faith.
ronitplank.com/2026/03/10/l...
Yeah, what is that?
SoCal friends: I'll be doing an author event, along with novelist Kaira Rouda (We Were Never Friends), for the Huntington Beach Library on March 23. If you are at loose ends and itching for a book talk, come join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lun...
Congratulations, Caroline, and much love.
I can't bear the sadism.
I'm a reader first, last, and always. The writing is a pressure valve for a bunch of other stuff.
Always.
CARTESIANS.