Jun 11, 2009 Posted by Kim Werker

Thursday Stories: Garbage Pail Kids in the City

Garbage Pail Kid image by krystal.pritchett I’ve been thinking a lot about writing—about how much I want to be doing it, what I might do it about, whether someone somewhere might pay me to do it. Since the theme of this year is “It’s no longer the time of sitting around and thinking about doing something,” well, welcome to Thursdays Are for Stories. Long or short, fiction or non-... read more

May 13, 2009 Posted by Kim Werker

It’s My 20th Bat Mitzvahversary

Twenty years ago today in the suburbs of Albany, NY, wearing a white frilly dress purchased from the store where one must purchase such things in Brooklyn, NY, I sang in public for the last time. As it was quite literally on the occasion of an honest-to-god rite of passage, nobody fell sick as a result. Per tradition in the Northeast USA, my parents threw me a huge party at a hotel on the occasion of my... read more

Apr 1, 2009 Posted by Kim Werker

Making Mischief of One Kind and Another

Image via Wikipedia I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss), and the other led me to befriend monsters and explore my imagination without bounds, knowing that the safety of home would always be there when I was ready to come back to it (Where the Wild Things Are, by... read more