Andrea Cooley Creative Services

I don’t like to be cold, but I tend to get cold at work (I keep a cardigan and wrap there and end up wearing it most days), in movie theaters, and restaurants. Of course I usually forget to bring something warm to wrap around my shoulders. Someone at work mentioned she had read about [...]

Drip Drop.Drip Drop.Snow piles meltRun down the walkTo the street,Slow and sure. Drip Drop. Rays of sunBurn through the mound out back. Once white and pureNow a brown mess.Drip DropDrip Drop. The snow is goneBut there is no green grass. And then,Just when you think spring has sprung.A flake falls. So white and clean. Then [...]

Hypothetically speaking, if you see a cart sitting in the parking garage of the public library with magazines on it and nobody is there to claim them is it stealing if you take one of them home with you? Especially if it has a cover like this? Seriously, who can resist cupcakes? I’ll be honest. [...]

I’ll be the first to say that I was more than happy to turn the calendar page on January to February. Does anyone else think that having 31 days of January is just a little too brutal? Obviously the past month has been particularly rough in my world besides the cold, snow, and ice, but [...]

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
E.L. Doctorow
I’m reading Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamott and even though I’m not writing a novel, I’m not really writing anything specific at the moment, this [...]