I’ve never really been personally invested in what book Oprah picks for her bookclub. Now I am. Not just because she picked a short story collection (yay!) but that she picked Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re…
Date Archives 2009
So thoughtful, it’s just what I want
This morning over breakfast (trail mix and juice for him, coffee for me) Nolan announced: “For Christmas I am going to buy you with my own money an electric pencil sharpener and a t-shirt that…
The wonders
Yesterday for unknown reasons I decided to create a playlist consisting of one-hit wonders. These were no ordinary one-hit wonders, these were personal one-hit wonders. Songs buy individuals with only one song in my 9,705…
I don’t care what you say singing along to ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ is fun
So I just got off the phone with a distraught Sister #3. Her ex is being a total asshole and she doesn’t have any money and well, it’s all the kind of problems that are…
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K
So I made a big change in the look of ol’ I Will Dare. I am on the fence about this new super clean look. I can’t tell if it’s lean and sophisticated or sterile…
An open letter to the people who have forgotten what our country is all about
Dear American Whiners, Yes, what Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina did tonight during President Obama’s address to Congress was juvenile. Any adult shouting out the equivalent of liar, liar pants on fire is juvenile…