Day 2,920: Events in the History of Female Employment; or, a Book Update

This counts as a messy desk for me, believe it or not. I'm slightly stressed just looking at it now. I'm nearly finished with the draft of my next book, a memoir about the twelve years I worked for Amazon as, you know, a woman. I have a fairly granular list of what’s left to…

Day 1,944*: Likability Comma Mine

The asterisk above is because after I labeled my last one Day 1,917, Belle commented that she had it as 1,931. She's way more likely to be right than I am, so I'm adjusting. It's actually the second time in the history of Off-Dry that I've realized the day count was off. You wouldn't think…

Day 1,917: Not All Rowboats & Accordians

Last week I was seated at a dinner next to a woman who's writing a recovery memoir. When she found out I'm a published memoirist, she had questions about how I'd structured my book to make publishers like it. "Did you put the message of yours up front?" she asked. "Or tell the story first…

Day 1,165: Now, where were we?

Well, hi there! It's been a month since I published this essay, which was also the subject of my last post here. In case you haven't been following along--because why would you?--it went viral. Really really viral. A blow-by-blow would  be both dull and likely inaccurate, but suffice to say that after literally thousands of emails…