by Ira | Sep 10, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Podcasted tonight with Josh. We watched the Edward Albee classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which was a doozy. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Josh less so, I think 😂 But at the end of the day, as has happened several times on our podcast, we ended up...
by Ira | Sep 9, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I was stressing tonight about these upcoming scenes I was going to be writing for my book. They were foggy. They felt like “shoe leather,” as Shawn Coyne would put it: scenes that don’t actually do anything to further the story. Not the plot, but the...
by Ira | Sep 8, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I’m happy to be home. I realize that tonight with some sense of…relief? Maybe? Or just satisfaction. I’m leaning toward satisfaction. I loved going away this weekend. Like, I was looking forward to it so much, and it delivered everything I wanted:...
by Ira | Sep 7, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
So, yeah…this place is the tits. We had an absolutely decadent day today. We woke up late, ate breakfast as room service (and the food was delicious, which isn’t always the case, even with the fanciest of hotels), I took another quick nap, and then we...
by Ira | Sep 6, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Happy Anniversary to the love of my life, Elizabeth Ho! We’ve been married for five years, and y’all…I am the luckiest man on the freaking planet. We’re up in Santa Barbara right now staying at El Encanto, which is the hotel where I proposed...
