Tag Archives: writing

i think i’m alone now

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Jason Sperber

At the end of this week, my three-and-a-half-year-old babygirl will have been a preschooler for an entire month. Her big sister’s already been a full-fledged third grader for a month. And they’re both loving it—let’s get that out of the … Continue reading →

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an end and a beginning (hopefully)

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Jason Sperber

For another forty minutes or so, it is still November 30, 2011, and thus the last day of NaBloPoMo and my little experiment to try to get myself blogging more and into the habit of daily writing practice. Including this … Continue reading →

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the holiday letter

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Jason Sperber

As Thanksgiving fast approaches, I’m ever more cognizant of the fact that I need to get my ass in gear and get the annual holiday letter done. The family photo shoot‘s done, la dra.’s card design mock-ups are on the … Continue reading →

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night shift

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Jason Sperber

So, this is day 18 of NaBloPoMo, and I’ve managed to keep the habit going except for the one night I was unable to get online or have access to WordPress. Week-and-a-half left. Have I written only great stuff? No. … Continue reading →

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words with friends

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Jason Sperber

We got to Russo’s a little early to get ready for tonight’s Rad Dad reading and meet up with anthology editor Tomás Moniz. Looking out at the rows of empty folding chairs, I started to get a little nervous. What … Continue reading →

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random writing

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Jason Sperber

Tonight was the first night in I don’t know long that I went out, by myself, at night, and wasn’t home for the girls’ bedtime. It was weird coming home to find them both asleep (but I love my wife … Continue reading →

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rambling

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Jason Sperber

It was only three months ago that I wrote, after the latest long unintended hiatus in a string of long unintended hiatuses (hiati?), about my issues with writing, with the actual act of doing it—and you can look in the … Continue reading →

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putting engaged fatherhood on the books

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Jason Sperber

This morning I took The Button to our local public library‘s weekly preschool storytime, to which we hadn’t been in a long time because of her nap schedule. As part of One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern‘s citywide reading of … Continue reading →

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guilt by association

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Jason Sperber

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m sitting here at the local indie coffeehouse trying to write. Even that formulation should tell you something about where my head’s at, since, as a writer friend of mine told me, “Write or write not. … Continue reading →

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