Now that the weather has gotten slightly chillier than it was before, The Tibbles have totally conned me into giving them rides to school. This is not because they want to spend more time with…
Posts tagged re-evaluating personal artifacts
Cramming 6 Years of TV into 245 Days
When I set out to re-evaluate my personal artifacts in honor of my FORTIETH! birthday, I had grand dreams of having re-evaluated everything by the time the actual birthday rolled around. Eternal, illogical optimism is…
Re-evaluating Personal Artifacts: Suzanne Vega’s ‘Solitude Standing’
I think it was my next-door neighbor and childhood best friend Jenni who gave me the 45 for Suzanne Vega’s “Luka.” It was either that or a 45 of Jack Wagner’s “Weatherman Says.” Those two…
I Stay Near You
I have a pack of friends who write books for young-adult and middle-grade readers (all of whom you should read). This is not just because I’m incredibly blessed to know smart, talented people, but also…
Confessions of a wannabe: I often have awful taste in music
For most of my life I’ve wanted to be a musicgeek. A musicgeek like guys are musicgeeks, memorizing record labels and producers and studio musicians like they’re some sort of baseball stats. I wanted to…