I can’t quite bring myself to get rid of the ocean photos here. It’s too depressing, especially since it’s getting cold (brrr) in D.C., where I’m residing these days.

It’s summer in DC now! Not cold any longer. But I still like the ocean photos so I’m going to leave them up for now if you don’t mind.

It’s winter again in DC, but I am now working for the first member of Congress from the CNMI and so I think I’ll leave up my Saipan ocean photo in tribute

you can reach me at aringreenwood at hotmail.com
or find me hanging out in the ocean shivering by the radiator sweltering in Rock Creek Park

in Congress

but email’s probably better

Though my full time freelancing appears to be over for a while, I am still a writer – still have a book to shill if anyone will take it – and still blog, badly, occasionally, so I guess I’ll leave the site up for the time being.

I have also written a novel called Tropical Depression, about a spunky young lawyer named Nina Barker who hightails it to the tropics in the wake of personal and professional disaster, and who finds that life in paradise is no less complicated than life in New York, it’s just warmer, weirder, and more likely to result in Death by Parasail Rope Snapping and/or Death by SCUBA. There are also some finely crafted cockfighting scenes in my novel, which you are sure to enjoy, as well as what I hope is a Truthful and Entertaining look at an indigenous island culture that is struggling to define itself in the wake of facile political choices that have left the culture on the brink of extinction. I am told the novel is right on the line of literary and commercial fiction, which I’d think would double my readership rather than making my book unsellable, but we shall see.

Oh, and to answer lingering questions: I am female. Yes, even with a name like Arin. Thank you, Mom and Dad.

moreover, this is my dog Barky

is she the cutest dog you’ve ever seen or what?

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and this is sweet vicious Arnold, who these days is living with my ex and so I don’t see him anymore

let’s all say hello to arnold.  hello arnold.