I’m going to tell you all the good things about today so far. 1.) Walter is curled up on my feet. I love when he does that. It’s very cute and makes life instantly cozier….
Date Archives 2017
Things I Read as a Child When I Was Desperate & Out of Books to Read
Last night on the Twitters while in the midst of a discussion about Catcher in the Rye, I confessed that as a child I used to read the TV Guide when I ran out of…
567 Words on the Death of My Water Heater
I’m about a dozen years into homeownership. I thought it was like ten years, but then I looked it up in the Archives and lo’ this joint became Supergenius HQ in September of 2005. For…
Don’t You Bother
Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica should have had the distinction of being the first book I quit in 2017, and yet somehow I finished it, though I’m not entirely sure why. I guess, maybe,…
Perfect Book for a Winter Night
There’s something extra cozy about curling into your flannel-sheathed bed in the dead of a Minnesota winter with a book set in the northwoods of Minnesota, in a small town with lakes a few churches…
Murder at Trivia Night
The other night I was watching the SAG Awards and caught a commercial for an HBO Limited Series based on Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and I went all Buddy the Elf in my head….