wednesday night sister #4 and i went to Turtles located in lovely downtown Shakopee (soon to be the hometown of Supergenius, Inc). before i dropped her off, we decided to drive past St. Mark’s Church…
Browsing Category Favorite
These are the iwilldare.com entries that I like the most. At least the ones I like that I remembered to come back and mark as one of my favorites.
unexpected tragedy on a wednesday afternoon
i’m doing my best not cry, because i hate crying at work. but this is hard. i was just sitting in a meeting with the gang, we were approving an ad. i reached across the…
Something in the popcorn
I have this feeling that there’s gonna be something in our popcorn,” Max said. He, Jaycie, and I had just piled into Ruby and were on our way to “Madagascar.” “What?” I asked. “I don’t…
a few things about Chicago Lodge Kathy
This is Kathy and her inside-out pajamas. she had run out of cans of Budweiser so we gave her a new castle. she poured the beer, took a sip and then proclaimed “It’s like you…
Lies I told my niece and nephew (ages 6 & 7) while babysitting this weekend
• Color wasn’t invented until 1956 (this is an idea that I stole from some movie or book or story i read somewhere– I can’t remember where so I cannot credit the source) • The…
The ugly 8th grader
I spent a lot of time last night reading Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face. This is Grealy’s memoir of her life living with her face which was disfigured by a cancer that caused doctors…