So there I was, getting gas on my way home from a long drive, at one of those Mobil / Exxon / Fast Food Place / Candy Bar Purchase Opportunity places on a Sunday afternoon. I was tired, I was not wearing makeup, and I was clad in flat shoes, old j...

Hello and welcome to the first entry of my guest stint at Skirt!  I am very excited to be here and honored to be writing for the Skirt crowd.   As a novelist whose first two books were published to deafening indifference, it’s lovely...