icarusancalion

I was wondering...

Are there any out there who'd like to read (or even beta read) a very, very, very rough draft of my dad's cottage journal? I think it's about 20,000 words.

I need to create a tag for dad's cottage logs.

Most of you know that my dad has a little island not much bigger than a parking lot and roughly shaped like a ship with pine trees for masts, that he "and the banks bought" twenty years ago. Every summer he sends his friends "cottage logs," updates and thoughtful observations on life in the north country. This one is from this summer.

( Annie has been waiting, her temper one degree below the boiling point, for me to do something about the rusty old screens in the cooking porch windows. For twenty years. )

The Gift Economy, Port32.com, and Sea-Doos.

My dad joked that the comments from my f-list were so helpful, next time we should negotiate a consulting fee.

I told him, "Actually, dad, this is the gift economy. If you ever want to ask for help again you need to throw something into the pot. I recommend sending us one of your stories. They liked those."

He has eagerly responded.

( And as usual, is funnier than shit. Story untitled, though I call it 'Sea-Doos' )