Anyone else an Anne Lamott fan?

[whometense]

Lovely interview in Salon: Anne Lamott's amazing grace

And I love what she writes about the 2004 election.

Do you smell any fresh, pine-scented air in our political climate right now?

The plates of the earth shifted for me tectonically the night of the midterm elections and I have not been the same. The day after the 2004 election ranks up there for me with days where cherished friends died. I was so hurt and stunned and hopeless. The day of the midterms I wouldn't watch them with anybody.

So superstitious.

I'm nobody's fool and I wasn't born yesterday. And also remember, new polls had come out two days earlier and it made the trend seem to have shifted and so all of a sudden Bob Menendez was in trouble in New Jersey, and I mean in real trouble, and he'd be doing much better and all of the sudden McCaskill was not going to win Missouri. So I got all of my foods, you know, my communion foods. I got Cheetos and M&M's, and I got cozy blankets, and I got ready for the good thing not to happen again. I sat here, and all of the sudden the first thing that happened was Chafee lost. Then all of the sudden Menendez won, quite handedly. And then Webb won, by God. There's a lot of fresh pine-scented air for me in that nothing Bush wants is going to happen.

[ginnyinWI]

1. oh thanks!

I do like Lamott. I'll be reading the whole thing. I didn't know she commented on politics. I've read her book, Bird By Bird on writing.

[whometense]

2. Apparently, she spent

a whole week with Molly Ivins right before she died. Her description of the visit is hilarious.

[BlueIris]

3. Hey, thanks for that. I'm a huge fan. nt