Marrying George Clooney

I have to applaud & acknowledge & honor all these amazing women who have books – memoirs, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, humor, feminist, and gothic books – out this month. I’m not going alphabetical… that would be much to difficult today. So here goes:

Linda Franklin. Hope Edelman. Nancy Lord. Monica Holloway. Clea Simon. Marti Rulli. Kathryn Gordon. Eileen Flanagan. Rachel Resnick. Michelle Maisto. Kara Candito. Catherine Daly. Deborah Siegel. Amy Sohn. Julie Buxbaum. Abby McDonald. Michelle Cameron. Nancy Lord. Cindy Hudson. Dr. Patti Feurestein. Caroline Pincus. Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein. Karen Franklin. Lauren King. Thomas Beattie … and just because I’m oh so hopeful & grateful & love their names: Amy Richards, Amy Thurman…

I am so proud to be among these women, and awfully proud to be a Seal Press girl.

A: Please drive slower, hon
K: I am driving slower, babe.
A: Slower than what, moo-moo?
K: Slower than the last time you asked me, sweetie.
A: okay. (accompanied by a deep, loud, obnoxious sigh), thanks.
K: Uh huh.
(Silence for about ten minutes… then)
A: Please drive slower, Ken,
K: I am driving slower, Amy.
A: Slower. Than. What?
K: Than. The. Last. Time. You. Asked. Me.
A: I DOUBT THAT.
(silence again for another ten minutes or so)
A: SLOW DOWN
K: Fuck you.
A: NO, NO, NO, NO….FUCK YOU, KEN…FUCK YOU!!!!!
K: OKAY. THAT’S IT. GET OUTTA THE CAR. I’M PULLING OVER AND I WANT YOU OUTTA THE FUCKING CAR. I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT.
A: Yeah. Right. ASSHOLE.
K; (mimicking me) Yeah. Right. (Ken does not say the word asshole because he finds it nasty and crude, and since he is a much better person than me, he refrains from tossing it back.)
(a beat…a long long beat)
A: Please. Drive. Slower.
K: You drive.
A: I don’t wanna drive. If I wanted to drive, i’d be driving.
K: YOU ARE FUCKING DRIVING.