Please indulge me for a moment while I conduct a little experiment. Apparently, readers are more apt to “feel connected” to writers when we tell personal stories and share photographs of our families and friends. Also, posting videos of our readings on YouTube supposedly helps people to become interested in our books. There are two major issues with this formula as far as I’m concerned: I don’t own a camera, and I don’t like it when people film my readings. Why? Because for some reason I will never comprehend I do not photograph well… at all. Something happens when you point a camera at me and I retract my chin into my neck, and thus I am mostly photographed looking like a constipated turtle. I only have one chin in real life, and not much of one, yet in photos I have a whole stack of them.  So you are spared snapshots of me and my husband and friends doing the boring sort of shit we do: going out to eat, talking, walking around, watching movies, reading books. It’s not like I am out there tearing it up on the weekends much these days; I am a 39 year old introvert, people. Back in March, however, I did go with my friends Stefanie and Bean to see Leonard Cohen at the art deco wondrous Paramount Theater here in Oakland, and I will share one — and only one — image of Sage and myself from that event.

Yes, that’s about how happy I am getting my photo taken. And that’s Leonard Cohen’s tour bus in the background. From my expression, you can tell that I really wanted it to run me over at that moment.

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