Archive - Corvairs & Horny Toads

It’s just a word that combines Pretend with Indian. But I fear the word Pretendian. In my gut.

Sep 15 •

Lucinda Blackwood

June 2024

Bonus Content: Work and Fun in Santa Barbara

I just got home from my second year at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. My favorite part—late-night “pirate workshops.”

Jun 30 •

Lucinda Blackwood

Y'all, It's My Pink Princess Phone!

Thank you to one of my most ardent subscribers for your beautiful work and for your passionate support of Corvairs and Horny Toads.

Jun 2 •

Lucinda Blackwood

May 2024

Episode 11: High School Diary Mini-Episode

Listen to me read the mortifying entries from the pink leather diary I kept as a surly teenage girl.

May 19 •

Lucinda Blackwood

13:41

Episode 10: Mother's Day Mini-Episode

Last Mother’s Day, I held a memorial for my mother. A gathering of our family of friends.

May 12 •

Lucinda Blackwood

11:03

"Mona Lisa" Bonus Content

A roadrunner will lead you home if you’re lost.

May 5 •

Lucinda Blackwood

April 2024

Episode 9: Mona Lisa

She wanted it all to disappear like the dust devils they chased that rose up and away, dissipating into nothing.

Apr 28 •

Lucinda Blackwood

29:52

"Betty's Roy Orbison Playlist" Bonus Content

I’ve never surfed in the ocean, but I have sand-surfed on the Kermit Sand Dunes.

Apr 21 •

Lucinda Blackwood

Episode 8: Betty's Roy Orbison Playlist

The Beal County Sheriff broke the news that they had been murdered early that morning.

Apr 14 •

Lucinda Blackwood

22:34

"Jerry Dale" Bonus Content

Jerry Dale’s Bottomless Lakes Adventure is inspired by truth about my mother—just as Kinfolk and a Yellow Meat Watermelon was inspired by truth about my…

Apr 7 •

Lucinda Blackwood

March 2024

Episode 7: Jerry Dale's Bottomless Lakes Adventure

There was a lot going on in Jerry Dale’s world right now. It was the end of her senior year of high school, and her senior class trip was approaching.

Mar 31 •

Lucinda Blackwood

30:18

"Kinfolk" Bonus Content

What Daddy passed down to me about our Native culture, he did privately, between father and child. Not because he was ashamed of our heritage—he was…

Mar 24 •

Lucinda Blackwood

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