by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2018 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I’ve been using the same desk lamp since middle school. It’s the world’s most generic black desk lamp with little cubbies on the bottom for paper clips and mouse skulls or whatever people keep in there. I’ve used it this long because it’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 12, 2016 | External Stimuli, Personally..., Uncategorized
It is my personal theory that everyone has one. “I can’t pick you up right now, bud. I’m already carrying 37 billion things.” “The doctor’s went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 20, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Personally...
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 23, 2014 | Personally...
When my daughter was first starting to get mobile, I gave her a drawer in our bathroom that was filled with random junk she couldn’t hurt herself with. This drawer bought me a few minutes and allowed me to go to the bathroom or brush my teeth while she emptied...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Uncategorized
I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Tomorrow is the exact middle of the year. That just blows my mind because it does NOT feel like we are halfway through this year and also fills me with panic. There’s so much I wanted to do this year and, while I have gotten a lot done, there have been several...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
