March 18, 2010 – 11:22 pm
Okay, so I’m an idiot. I received my electricity bill from Southern California Edison, set it aside with a thought to look at it again as the due date got closer, then put something on top of it, then something on top of that. This morning at about eleven am, while composing a Tweet (yes, [...]
December 24, 2009 – 11:51 am
A version of this story has also been posted on our writing blog, Tips on Writing. When I was twenty-three, I moved to Los Angeles with a dream and everything I could fit into a bright orange Ford Gran Torino station wagon that I bought for six hundred dollars and named Stanley. (Two points for [...]
November 17, 2009 – 11:58 pm
I used to love flying. I’d sit by the window and revel in glorious creation, both Divine and human, as I sat both ensconced in it and removed from it, watching, thrilled, as the farmland, villages, mountains, lakes and cities went by under the wings that cut through wispy clouds. It was true heaven as [...]
October 1, 2009 – 9:08 pm
I once bonded with a complete stranger I met at a party over mayonnaise. We were friends for years after that. She also made this odd faux sweet potato dish with boiled, mashed carrots, but that’s not the important issue, here. What’s important is that we bonded over our mutual, excessive and probably psychologically worrisome [...]
August 23, 2009 – 5:49 pm
Steve (my writing partner for those who haven’t kept up with my posts here) and I used to play Scrabble® a lot. He used to get all the best tiles. In how many games can you get a “J” in the first few rounds, when there is a perfect double or triple letter spot open [...]
I’ve been writing with Steve Mancini for over eleven years. That’s longer than many couples stay married! I still write things on my own of course (you are reading my blog, after all.) What we write together is completely distinct from what we do on our own. What we write together tends to be comedy, [...]
Okay, so I had a heart attack in January. Don’t worry, my health is improving. I was treated in a local hospital where, as I had just recently given up my insurance as a cost cutting measure (timing is everything) they made sure I was going to live, put me on a ton of medication [...]
I was moved today, studying art born of the marriage of pain and intelligence. I was moved and inspired. But don’t worry, I took a nap and it went away. _______________________________ Geoff Hoff is co-author of the best selling satirical novel Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend Sign up to get updates from Geoff and [...]
January 1, 2009 – 11:13 pm
Dear _______, I apologize for writing this email to you, but I need to express it to someone and you are as good a person as any. I am a little in my cups at the moment and you can completely ignore this message if you want, I don’t mind in the least. Over tea [...]
November 24, 2008 – 1:37 pm
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Prologue If I have a muse, she seems to have fallen asleep. I wish her good dreams. That she can convey [...]
