I had a lot of goals for 2012. Some I achieved (buy a new couch, stay out of a cube) and some I did not achieve (finish writing a book, read 52 books*). Of all…
Date Archives 2012
My 2012 Christmas Wish for You, Darling Ones
I don’t like to drive when it snows. It’s a fear that has grown into a full-blown, anxiety-induced phobia. Of all my quirks and neuroses this is the one I loathe the most because it…
Half-Blood Blues
After two, or maybe three false starts, I finally made it through Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues. Usually, I wouldn’t be so dogged in reading a book that didn’t seem to be working for me, but…
The Pop-Culture Filtering System in my Brain
When it comes to pop cultural nonsense, I have a very elaborate and arbitrary filtering system. We all have these filters, right? I mean there’s just so much out there that we can’t absorb it…
Color Me Obsessed: ‘They were sort of Morrissey for the Midwest’
So I’ve been trying for a week to write about the night I decided the time had finally come to sit down, drink a Captain Morgan and Diet Coke like it was 1995 and Kelly…
Tragedy & Heathers & Cookies
I don’t have any words about what happened in Newtown, only tears and anger. I can’t even muster the outrage so many seem to have at their ready. Really, the only thing I keep thinking…