Valerie Lopes
An American Writer Surrounded by the French
Valerie Lopes
- Location
- Dublin, Between the End of the Line and the Middle of Nowhere
- Birthday
- June 30
- Bio
- Looking for ways to avoid editing my manuscript, I've turned to blogging.
MY RECENT POSTS
- If You Have an Opinion, Please
Don't Apologize For Sharing
July 13, 2011 10:35AM - Even the Dubliners are
Complaining about the Weather
July 08, 2011 04:55AM - The Sounds of the City
March 07, 2011 04:46PM - Who Was That Foul-Mouthed Slag
at The Oscars? Melissa Leo.
February 28, 2011 10:42AM - Pounding the Pavement - Will
Work for a Living
February 21, 2011 01:03PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Facebook is only as much
as you let it be in your life.
If
you use it as a
market…”
December 11, 2010 04:33AM - “Walk around my town and
you'll find the only people
in
Starbucks are the
American…”
August 16, 2009 03:28AM - “This is why I moved to
Europe and would never move
back to
the states.”
August 13, 2009 07:27AM - “Tell me Steve - how do
you deal with the ick? You
should have
sued your medical
s…”
August 06, 2009 01:19AM - “For years I've been
threatening to write a firmly
worded
letter to my
overpriced…”
August 05, 2009 04:10PM
Valerie Lopes's Links
JULY 13, 2011 10:35AM
If You Have an Opinion, Please Don't Apologize For Sharing
If you have an opinion, please don't apologize for it. I'm so sick
and tired of reading peoples Facebook updates, then at the end they
apologize out of fear they may offend someone for thinking
differently from them. Is the world filled with wimps, or just a
whole lot of people…
JULY 8, 2011 4:55AM
Even the Dubliners are Complaining about the Weather
Do you know why Ireland is so green? It rains all of the time. I'm
not complaining. I love this weather. It's cool and damp, then like
a biblical miracle, there will be this sudden and engulfing burst
of warm sunshine. I sleep like the dead and I don't have dry…
MARCH 7, 2011 4:46PM
The Sounds of the City
I forgot my iPhone the other day and had to listen to the sounds of
humanity as I commuted into town for work. People are loud,
obnoxious and intrusive. I missed being in my micro-world and have
a better understanding why so many of us go around with our
ear-buds plugged…
FEBRUARY 28, 2011 10:42AM
Who Was That Foul-Mouthed Slag at The Oscars? Melissa Leo.
FEBRUARY 21, 2011 1:03PM
Pounding the Pavement - Will Work for a Living
I am willing to work for a living. By work I mean actually WORK. Do
labour. Use my hands and my back. I have no problem admitting I
worked my way through school waiting tables and pouring coffee. Now
that I'm back on the market again after my exile in the…
FEBRUARY 11, 2011 4:15PM
My Secret Identity Has Developed a Life of its Own.
My secret identity is really really really popular!!!! Way more
popular than I really am. But then again my secret identity is
pleasing in so many ways. She isn't grouchy or irascible or have
opinions on things like Tiger Moms or Tiger Woods. In the month
since I've created alter-me and…
JANUARY 18, 2011 5:05AM
Moving To Dublin: Back Amongst the Living!
We've been in Dublin for two weeks. At last we have internet,
television, a telephone and that general feeling we're getting
settled in. I know the bus routes, I've figured out where I like to
buy groceries and I have a library card. The kids are settled in
school and they…
DECEMBER 27, 2010 10:16AM
Secret Identity - I've just created my own Remington Steele
DECEMBER 12, 2010 12:36PM
Moving to Dublin - Unearthing Burried Treasure
As I'm cleaning out my house and parring down to the absolute bare
minimum, I'm finding a lot of stuff that has managed to make it
from move to move as we went from small apartment to bigger
apartment to homeowners. There is a big difference between moving
across town and…
DECEMBER 10, 2010 10:57AM
Moving to Dublin - Why NOW Does my Writers Block Evaporate?
I'm moving to Dublin and will be out of my house in about ten days.
For the past eight or so months, I've had a dose of writers block.
Neither oppressive nor incapacitating, but present. I haven't been
able to get back to the manuscript that was almost perfect, but
not… Read full post »
DECEMBER 9, 2010 6:37AM
Moving to Dublin - First Contact
So I've secured a home and found a school for my children. My
husband will be starting work after the first of January.
Everything is set on that end. More or less. What about me? I'm
leaving behind my friends and my routine. I worry about my children
making friends in…
NOVEMBER 26, 2010 5:13AM
Moving to Dublin - I'm American so I'm Fine
I was in Dublin at the beginning of the week looking for a place
for us to land when we arrive at the beginning on January. That and
a take a couple of days to get a feel for the place. I arrived at
my hotel just as Brian Cowen was…
NOVEMBER 10, 2010 2:46PM
Parenthood on NBC - Letting the Autistic Child Run the Show
Parenthood on NBC is an okay show. I'm not in love
with it, but I do watch it. I'd probably love it more if Adam and
Kristina (the parents of Max the child with Asperger's) were such
weak parents. Episode 8 starts off with Adam, Zeek and Max walking
through the/…
NOVEMBER 5, 2010 8:16AM
Eleven Movies Hollywood Should Remake
Hollywood seems determined to keep reliving the past. Unfortunately
it's the same remakes over and over again. We've been subjected to
two Hulk movies in the past decade and who knows how many revisions
of 42nd street and a Star is Born - I never watched the Mariah
Carey version so…
NOVEMBER 4, 2010 4:56AM
Moving to Dublin - Releasing the Hoard
When I think I have a grip on the whole moving across a body of
water thing, I go down to my cellar and see how much crap I
actually own. As I look at the boxes and boxes and then more boxes
of books I have I wonder if the…
NOVEMBER 3, 2010 5:03AM
Mike and Molly - A little too married to the fat jokes
NOVEMBER 2, 2010 9:24AM
We're Moving Where?
Dublin. The family is packing it up and moving to Dublin. Seven
weeks give or take, we are boots on the ground in Dublin. They
speak English there. I've lived in a French speaking world for
twelve years. The constant struggle to make myself understood has
been a daily gripe for…
FEBRUARY 20, 2010 12:59PM
Word Press is Just Bringing me Down...
I tried Word Press and there is a lot about it I like.
Unfortunately I can't figure out a few things and I can't be arsed
to spend the emotional time and energy needed to persist. So I'm
back to blogger for the time being.
FEBRUARY 20, 2010 12:52PM
Because Boys Will Always Be Boys…
JANUARY 29, 2010 11:22AM
Moving to Wordpress
JANUARY 25, 2010 3:31PM
Working Over the Weekend
I spent the weekend working on After Love at First Sight in which a
great deal of my time was spent spinning my wheels. After devoting
a majority of Saturday to setting up what will ultimately be a
break-up (basically I've put the shotgun on the mantle) I've
decided to go…
JANUARY 20, 2010 4:07PM
Biting the Bullet and Writing a Bible
I've come to the conclusion that I need both a bible and a detailed
timeline for the Pandora Building series I'm writing. I've avoided
doing it, but now that I've started in on After Love at First
Sight, I'm realizing how much I desperately need a detailed
timeline. Since The Other…
JANUARY 19, 2010 4:01AM
Writing Like Jude Deveraux
I've fought it for a long time and now I've just decided to
embrace it fully - I'm a romance writer. Not Chick-Lit or Hen-Lit
or Womens-Lit. I write romance plain and simple and I'm not
ashamed. Since I read my first Jude Deveraux novel (I think it
was The Black Lyon -… Read full post »
OCTOBER 4, 2009 4:00PM
If My Blog Were a Child Social Services Would be Called
I've neglected my promise to myself to blog. On top of that I
haven't been blogging about writing and the long, arduous,
heartbreaking and joyless process of trying to get published. So as
September is finished (and thank god for that) I recommit myself to
the point of this exercise…
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 11:07AM
Kayne You Ass Bag
So I'm a day behind the curve with the whole Kanye / Taylor thing,
but that's for a few reasons.
- I dislike MTV
- I dislike awards shows
- I don't have TV in my house
Valerie Lopes's Favorites
Sandra Stephens
Popsquire
Nelle Engoron
Yarn Over
Max the Communist
D ArtUpdates
-
The Crash: Mad Men Season 6, Episode 8 (Commentary)
-
The First Hummingbird
-
A Message from Open Salon...
-
Manly Dick
-
Why I Support Keeping a Woman On British Banknotes
-
Paul Levinson reads from Unburning Alexandria
-
#ThatIsRape: FAQs to Help Keep You Off The Sex Offender List
-
Prepositions in the Age of Sequestration
Salon.com