Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I can’t take it!

As a writer, you’re going to have moments of self-doubt – sometimes coming from people who are actually trying to help you.

When my wife and I were building our house, there came a time where we had to make a lot of decisions. What kind of cabinet pulls do you want (knobs, but they aren’t all knobs; some are recessed, and if recessed, then a pull), what color pulls, what kind of hinges – hidden or exposed, or this or that. Just to open a fucking cabinet. Multiply that over a whole house and you can quickly go crazy from too many choices.

It was crazy.

Me, on Bourbon Street.

But before we got that far, we first decided to build a house. So we bought a parcel of land to call our own – and promptly took a vacation to New Orleans, a…