The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenue: A Novel by Barbara O'Neal

Author:Barbara O'Neal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, magic, contemporary women, family, food, divorce, Barbara samuel, contemporary, love story, drama, saga, FIC027020, FIC045000, FIC044000, realism, women's fiction
Publisher: Barbara Samuel
Published: 2014-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

SHANNELLE’S WRITING WALL

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

DIANE ACKERMAN

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SHANNELLE

TO: [email protected]

FROM: [email protected]

SUBJECT: how few pages

Dear Naomi,

No, I haven’t had much time to write the past few weeks. The whole Thanksgiving fiasco with my parents is just going on and on—she shows up every other day for sympathy, and how can I not give it to her? She doesn’t have anybody else. It’s causing all kinds of tension with Tony, too, because he doesn’t want to be involved. My family embarrasses him, and I do understand. They embarrass me, which is an awful thing to say, but it’s true.

The good news is, my neighbor across the street, Jade, is a social worker with all kinds of contacts and she found me a dentist who is going to do the work on my mouth for nothing, as long as I let him take pictures and document the “reconstruction.” I saw him last week and he did some stuff to the root of the bad tooth, which made it stop hurting, anyway. He’s really nice, pretty young, and I guess he can use me to write a paper and get some more credentials. So, I’m seeing him every other week until it’s all done. Even Tony didn’t make any noises this time about being charity cases. I think the last two toothaches really scared him.

I’m also feeling really guilty because we are still struggling with money so much. I know I’m smart enough to get a job in an office somewhere, and I’m good at organizing things. It seems crazy to be chasing this idea of writing books when I could get real work at $9 an hour and build a nice, ordinary life. Tony is always coming home and telling me about jobs at State Hospital, where he works, and it’s so stable and so reliable, he’d really like me to do it. It’s hard to stick with my five-year plan, to believe I can really do this. It’s getting kind of close now—I only have a year left, Naomi, and then I told him I would go to work.

Am I crazy? Give me some words of wisdom if you have any. I’m feeling pretty depressed.

Shannelle

TO: [email protected]

FROM: [email protected]

SUBJECT: oh, sure, work for the state

hey, sweetie—so happy about dentist & teeth troubles getting fixed. did you fill out the form for the writer’s retreat? the deadline is next week. you must do this!

so sorry to hear of all the things in your weigh (weighing you down). first of all, recognize that all writers and painters and creative people have times when they are not as productive as they’d like to be. don’t beat yourself up for not getting as much done as you’d like. it’ll come.

oh, and yeah, i think you should go be a secretary and dress up for work every day and do things you’ll hate from 8 a.

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