Mail Call

This postcard came in the mail a few days ago:

The Calhoun Mansion in Charleston, S. C.
My house: The Calhoun Mansion in Charleston, S. C. Not too shabby!

I can just picture myself hanging out on that balcony at night…sipping a mint julep (why not?), being eaten by mosquitoes, and missing the balconies in the Quarter, probably.

NOLA Courtesan: Calhoun Mansion Postcard
She didn’t even visit the mansion, haha. She just picked up the postcard because it made her think of me.

Short Stories (Fiction) in The New Yorker

I’m not the biggest fan of the gym, so I make it more enjoyable by bringing along an issue of The New Yorker (one of my lovely clients bought me a subscription!) so that I can read the short fiction while I work out. It works pretty well.

So I found a cool blog: New Yorker Story Critiques

And now, when I finish a story, I get out my phone and look at the blog to see what they thought. So I guess this blog is indirectly contributing to my overall health, seeing as I end up staying on the elliptical for a few extra minutes, lol.