If I had a quarter for everyone who asks me: "How do you find the time to write so much?" I'd be one rich little girl. Filthy rich, actually, because my standard response is, "I write during the times that most people are probably cleaning their houses." Gulp. Well, today I forayed into exactly that Windex-perfumed world, kicking and screaming, in the interest of impressing my wonderful mother who is coming tomorrow. (Vague snippets of teenage memories bounce around my head as I grab the mop, a dozen years later..."Riva--clean your room!" "How do you find anything in this pig-sty?!" Betcha can't relate.)
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ZB
7/21/2009 12:08:52 am
Lol, can't really relate because I'm the clean, neat one in my family and I love cleaning but I've heard your line many, many times.
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shani
7/22/2009 01:58:29 am
I love everything clean and orderly! I didn't always, you can ask my mother about my room:) also, I think that if your house is clean and neat, its a calmer place for everyone.
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Wouldn't you know it--it's all the neat freaks coming out of their (clean) closets to comment! :-) Yeah, ZB, you're totally right. If I'd do a little every day it wouldn't be as overwhelming, but I'm way too free-spirited to do anything consistently!
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Ronit
7/26/2009 03:59:56 pm
Riva, I have a theory that artists (and that would include writers) tend to care less about neatness. What do you say?
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About Riva PomerantzI'm a freelance writer, widely published in several magazines including the internationally-distributed Ami Magazine. Riva also appears, as well as on the award-winning website www.aish.com, amongst others. You can buy my books, Green Fences, Breaking Point, and Breaking Free, at www.targum.com. My serialized story, Charades, is really heating up! Archives
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