Cary Tennis After Hours
Cary Tennis
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Birthday
- September 11
- Title
- Since You Asked advice columnist
- Company
- Salon.com
- Bio
- Cary Tennis writes the Since You Asked advice column for Salon.com. He also leads writing workshops and runs a small publishing company. He lives in the Outer Sunset/Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife Norma, who is a painter and book designer, and their two standard poodles, Lola and Ricky.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Suddenly I know what my
memoir's about
April 02, 2012 02:22PM - Reflecting on the workshops
(dreaming aloud)
March 18, 2012 10:31PM - A romantic wedding tale (how
the Creative Getaway was born)
December 15, 2011 01:56PM - What's wrong with my Web site?
What should it do?
January 07, 2011 11:33AM - Man, I hardly ever post here
November 10, 2010 06:04PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks. That was cool.
Just right.”
March 08, 2012 02:31PM - “Good story well told.
Thanks. Too bad about that
bias against
therapy. It's not
l…”
March 23, 2011 01:33PM - “These are good, sensible
comments. They mirror much of
what I
had suspected. I
ap…”
February 22, 2011 01:26PM - “Nice piece. I say ask.
And keep making these
mistakes.
They're the best
kind of m…”
November 11, 2010 12:34PM - “I love Gainesville! And
I love Melrose! Me and my
hippie
friends from high
school…”
September 23, 2010 06:07PM
Cary Tennis's Links
- Links to things that matter to me
- Algonkian Conferences
- AuthorSalon.com
- Kate Moses and Cakewalk
- Poet Bob Hicok
- Hillary Rettig's The Lifelong Activist
- Martha Zlatar, Creativity Coach
- Elizabeth Husserl and Inner Economics
- Portuguese Artists Colony readings
- Pat Schneider
- Amherst Writers and Artists
- Cary Tennis Writing Workshops
- Since You Asked: The book
- Cary Tennis Creative Getaways
OK, no kidding around now
So I had a lot of resistance to actually blogging in classic blogging style and still do but have decided to just go ahead and write as terribly as possible, or as honestly as possible, which might be about the same thing, i'm figuring, as to tell you the truth the… Read full post »
Now I'm really wasting time
I'm supposed to be writing the column I write for Salon, which is what they pay me for, but some mornings it's so easy to get distracted by all the other stuff there is to do, and nobody's here monitoring me, so I'm sitting here in my downstairs office at home… Read full post »
More on the next book
Appreciate the ideas on the title, and I'm still looking for
somebody who killed himself after I told him not to. That would be
an interview.
And naturally I have complex and conflicting interests. I do want
to demonstrate to readers that it is possible to change your
life,/… Read full post »
So. Well, the next book. The next book I think I will call
Problem Solved: True Stories of [21] Real People who Reached a Crisis, Asked for Help and Changed Their Lives.
How do you like the title? Kind of ok, I guess. It gets the point… Read full post »
This is my first time blogging. Ever. Reason being I could never get over that word, blog. Such an awful word, blog.
Really, it all seemed so absurd, the idea of blogging. And
"weblog" was far preferable as a descriptive term. As aperson who
writes slowly (contrary to published reports), carefully (yes,
really) and mostly for money,
I dunno, blogging just didn't seem to offer much. It is so much
work to write.… Read full post »
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