Holiday

Happy Fourth, everyone. I’ll be in Springfield, Missouri, for Independence Day, celebrating with my mother and cousins. Monday I’ll drive with the ConductMom to Kansas City where I’ll be getting to see some old friends, and also do a book reading (Rainy Day Books on July 8 at 7pm). So posting may be slow next week, though I hope to have some good pictures to show you when I return.

This will be a trip to remember, I think. I haven’t been back to KC for 10 years or so. Some things I plan to do in on the trip:

1. Learn to shoot! One of my cousins has promised to teach me how to fire a gun, which I’ve been wanting to learn to do for years. I suspect the rest of my red-state cousins are getting no end of amusement out of this request of mine.
2. Give a reading at the same bookstore my mother and I used to go to on Saturday afternoons. Some serious home-town-girl-makes-good action going on there!
3. Be a guest on the same radio talk show I used to book actors on when I was a theater publicist.
4. See my high-school librarian, and probably several other high-school teachers.
5. Reunite with two friends whom I haven’t seen in 15+ years in one case and 20+ in the other (thank you, Facebook!)

So it should be an amazing blast through my present, past, and future!

If you haven’t been keeping up with the Miss Conduct blog, you might want to check out this question, the excellent (and fairly short) comment thread that ensued, and my responses (I & II). We dug into that “rude v. hurtful” distinction in some interesting ways.

Have a happy Fourth!

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