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bakery me

Posted on by sheri

bakery

just back from nyc (2 days fun with my mom; 2 days fun with my work). how is it that i never really noticed how many bakeries are in that town? oh, how i love a good cannoli. don’t get me wrong. i’ve had a cannoli in nyc before, i just had eyes for bakeries the entire time, it seems.

was also so happy to see stumptown there. mmm. just mmm. had coffee there twice — as well as their ham and cheese breakfast sammy on pretzel bread — twice!

now it’s officially the countdown to 40 — just 20 days to go! going to try to update regularly although work is often kicking my butt these days, so that might be a lie. so many fun plans in the next few months. not sure i can handle all the anticipation.

don’t miss the new issue of this joy+ride with photos from a flickr fave: lars wästfelt. is photos floor me regularly.

23 stories

Posted on by sheri

wink

tomorrow i will start the “23 stories for a fried chicken sandwich” project.

“what’s that?” you ask.

well, it’s a bet, of sorts, with my writing partner and friend m. i really need something to kick start my writing again. competition, yes. accountability, sure. pure writing joyfulness, i wish. would any of this really be enough? maybe not.

so m and i decided we had to make the project truly more meaningful. you see, i’ll do ANYTHING for a fried chicken sandwich at bake sale betty in oakland. ANYTHING (you wouldn’t believe its goodness, seriously…).

so me and m made a bet. or a pact. or whatever you want to call it, in which the winner gets a fried chicken sandwich. because i will do anything, even vow to write 23 times in a month when i think i’m too busy writing for work to write for myself.

the 23 stories will follow here. 23 stories in march (the idea is 5 days a week). some will be non-fiction, some will be fiction, some might even be poetry, who knows? one piece might even be about the above house in my neighborhood, which i always think is winking at me.

so wish me luck. i hope you’ll visit often. or, better yet, join me. i can’t promise you a fried chicken sandwich, but if you’re competitive, i can promise you’ll write 23 things this month. you will sit down and write 23 times and wow, that is something (but still not really as good as a BSB fried chicken sandwich).