Friday, June 30, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
What if I wrote my list in Word?
I'm getting this question a lot--and so, here's an answer! If you wrote your list in Word or another online format, please send it to me as an attachment. If it seems like a good fit for the book or the blog, I will let you know and we'll go from there.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
To Do: Leave the Country for a Week
Todolistblog.com will take a weeklong pause while I am miles away from computers in Mexico! Please keep sending me your lists and leaving comments. I love reading them and your reactions to the lists help inform the questions that I will ask the list authors when I interview them for the To-Do List book, to be published by Simon & Schuster in fall 2007.
If you have a list in a language other than English, please send me the original list along with a translation.
Send your real, handwritten lists to:
TO-DO LIST BOOK
P.O. Box 40128
San Francisco, CA 94140
Deadline: July 1, 2006, but the sooner the better.
Tech-savvy? Feel free to send a scan of your list too to todolistblog@gmail.com. But eventually I will need the real thing.
Please include: Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number.
Feel free to include a short note about what was going on in your life when you wrote the list; what prompted you to write it; what does the list mean to you; how do you the feel about the person who you were when you wrote it. No need to write a novel, just a sentence, two or three, handwritten or typed, is fine.
If your list is chosen, I will contact you to interview you about the story behind the list—in other words, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Your contribution can be anonymous in the published book, so don't hesitate to send in lists with revealing items—those are often the best kind.
Questions? Contact me at todolistblog@gmail.com.
Hasta pronto!
P.S. Oh, and by the way, I am going to be part of a QUIRKYALONE BIKE TOUR in France in September. If you are interested, go to quirkyalone.net for more information.
If you have a list in a language other than English, please send me the original list along with a translation.
Send your real, handwritten lists to:
TO-DO LIST BOOK
P.O. Box 40128
San Francisco, CA 94140
Deadline: July 1, 2006, but the sooner the better.
Tech-savvy? Feel free to send a scan of your list too to todolistblog@gmail.com. But eventually I will need the real thing.
Please include: Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number.
Feel free to include a short note about what was going on in your life when you wrote the list; what prompted you to write it; what does the list mean to you; how do you the feel about the person who you were when you wrote it. No need to write a novel, just a sentence, two or three, handwritten or typed, is fine.
If your list is chosen, I will contact you to interview you about the story behind the list—in other words, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Your contribution can be anonymous in the published book, so don't hesitate to send in lists with revealing items—those are often the best kind.
Questions? Contact me at todolistblog@gmail.com.
Hasta pronto!
P.S. Oh, and by the way, I am going to be part of a QUIRKYALONE BIKE TOUR in France in September. If you are interested, go to quirkyalone.net for more information.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
To-Do List Interview on CBC Radio Friday!
Hey Canadians, Americans, and list people the world over. . . I'll be talking about to-do lists in all their glory on CBC Radio One’s national afternoon show, “Freestyle,” a fun, conversational show about pop culture and lifestyle issues. Listen online at Friday at 3:35 pm. Of course you can listen to the archived show.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Wanted: Your To-Do Lists for a Book
To-Do List is not just a blog or a magazine. It's going to be a book! TO-DO LIST will be published by Simon & Schuster in fall 2007. TO-DO LIST will be a book of real, handwritten to-do lists with commentary. It will capture the range of mundane and meaningful things we think about in our everyday lives.
I invite you to contribute your lists--ideally, the real, handwritten variety written in the course of your everyday life. We’re interpreting "to-do" broadly. They could be:
garden-variety daily to-do lists
lifelong goals
pros and cons lists
wish lists
ways to deal with insomnia
articles i want to write
boys/girls i have kissed
vocab lists
secrets i have never told anyone
cliches to avoid
things i would do if i win the lottery
classes to take
movies to see
things i like to do alone
lists of any kind
Send your real, handwritten lists to:
TO-DO LIST BOOK
P.O. Box 40128
San Francisco, CA 94140
Deadline: July 1, 2006, but the sooner the better.
Tech-savvy? Feel free to send a scan of your list too to todolistblog@gmail.com. But eventually I will need the real thing.
Please include: Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number.
Feel free to include a short note about what was going on in your life when you wrote the list; what prompted you to write it; what does the list mean to you; how do you the feel about the person who you were when you wrote it. No need to write a novel, just a sentence, two or three, handwritten or typed, is fine.
If your list is chosen, I will contact you to interview you about the story behind the list—in other words, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Your contribution can be anonymous in the published book, so don't hesitate to send in lists with revealing items—those are often the best kind.
Questions? Contact me at todolistblog@gmail.com.
I invite you to contribute your lists--ideally, the real, handwritten variety written in the course of your everyday life. We’re interpreting "to-do" broadly. They could be:
garden-variety daily to-do lists
lifelong goals
pros and cons lists
wish lists
ways to deal with insomnia
articles i want to write
boys/girls i have kissed
vocab lists
secrets i have never told anyone
cliches to avoid
things i would do if i win the lottery
classes to take
movies to see
things i like to do alone
lists of any kind
Send your real, handwritten lists to:
TO-DO LIST BOOK
P.O. Box 40128
San Francisco, CA 94140
Deadline: July 1, 2006, but the sooner the better.
Tech-savvy? Feel free to send a scan of your list too to todolistblog@gmail.com. But eventually I will need the real thing.
Please include: Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number.
Feel free to include a short note about what was going on in your life when you wrote the list; what prompted you to write it; what does the list mean to you; how do you the feel about the person who you were when you wrote it. No need to write a novel, just a sentence, two or three, handwritten or typed, is fine.
If your list is chosen, I will contact you to interview you about the story behind the list—in other words, what was going on in your life when you wrote it. Your contribution can be anonymous in the published book, so don't hesitate to send in lists with revealing items—those are often the best kind.
Questions? Contact me at todolistblog@gmail.com.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
This Blog on Australia National Radio
Sunday I was on Australia Radio National talking about this blog. . . and encouraging those of you in Oz to send me your lists. The interview starts with a discussion of lists in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and then moves on to what makes a good list--the extent of its ambition? Or its ordinariness?
Listen to the MP3 file or the Real Player audio here. (Scroll through to the halfway point--about 29 minutes in--for the beginning of the to-do list discussion.)
Listen to the MP3 file or the Real Player audio here. (Scroll through to the halfway point--about 29 minutes in--for the beginning of the to-do list discussion.)
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