When Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later arrived on my doorstep Monday afternoon, I was more than a little excited. It was the first time in my, er 26-year Sweet Valley career that I didn’t…
Date Archives March 2011
The best thing to lose sleep over
This was the view from the desk at the Continuing Education building on the UofM campus in St. Paul. A few of the things I witnessed during the seventeen hours I was perched behind the…
Little House, Dawson’s Creek & the evolution of language
This is the inscription inside the cover of my copy of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I cropped it out, but my phone number was on there too. Only seven…
O Swamplandia!
Endings are hard. As a writer I’ve never managed to write a decent one. I blame that on Journalism school and inverted pyramid where we were taught to sort of quit rather than bring a…
A tale of two Top 25 lists
Every year round near the Ides of March, I go into iTunes, select all, and then choose reset playlist, but not before I make a playlist of the year’s Top 25 Most Played songs. I…
You are what you post: A warning & a rant
About seventy-eight times in the past few weeks I’ve seen this tweet or Facebook update that basically boiled down to this thought: “I can’t believe X thought Y about me.” The update is usually made…