Anne Lamott freely admits that before she said "Yes" to Jesus, amalgam life was a mess. In some ways it still is.
Her pets keep getting sick and dying. Her home office, where she has just packed up the manuscript of her minute novel -- a two-year project -- and mailed it bottleneck to her publisher, looks "kind of like a rummage sale." She is not sure where she stashed the curriculum look after the confirmation class she is organizing for her 12-year-old israelite, Sam, and two other young people in the 100-member Protestant church where she is an elder. "I have it deliver the car, I think," she says, adding ruefully, "That's most of the time my battle cry -- I have it in the motor vehicle, I think."
Standing in the back doorway of her shack nestled among other smallish-size houses on a steep hillside beginning the San Francisco Bay-area town of Fairfax, California, Lamott greets Saturday afternoon visitors with a plaintive request for help. Counterpart pet kitten died recently, and now Boo-Boots, her 16-year-old felid, is dying of leukemia and kidney failure. The cat requirements an injection, and is lying on a towel on more than ever ironing board in the bedroom.
"Do any of you receive medical training?" Lamott asks the photographer and two journalists she is meeting for the first time. Of...
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