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Anansi Boys
While on our wild, arctic adventure, Rocco and I listened to an absolutely beautiful audio book – Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. This audio book was particularly wonderful because the actor on the...
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
A few weeks ago, a dear friend of mine handed me a copy of a book and said something like, “This made me think of you and your book.” Having now read the memoir, what I think he meant to say was,...
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Carrie Pilby
It’s snowing again. *cracks knuckles* It’s making me twitchy. But the upside to ass tons of snow every three days, is catching up on some of my reading. And not just Penthouse Letters. I finally...
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The Middle Place
So seeing as how I’m hoping to someday trick someone into publishing that book of mine, I’ve been reading a lot of memoirs, cancer ones in particular. That’s how I ended up reading The Middle Place....
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
You ever have someone try and turn you on to something that just doesn’t quite fit you, but you can still tell it’s really, really awesome? Even if you don’t enjoy it as much as you probably ought to?...
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The Perfect Body
When you go to a museum and look at a Picasso, do you think, “If I just took a few art classes, I could totally do that?” I’m pretty confident that a couple of voice lessons aren’t the only thing...
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Crushed
I’m reading an epically long, thick novel entitled Shantaram at the moment. I’m on page 629…out of 936. As I might have already mentioned, it’s not short. Like at all. And it’s sometimes very...
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Shantaram
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way…” Remember that book I told you about four hundred years ago? Well I finally finished it. And that quote is really the best way to describe how I feel...
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The Cute, the Funny, and the I CAN’T WAIT TO DEVOUR THIS BOOK!
My attention span is getting shorter than my length of time between pees, so I’m going to distract you with the fantastic-ness that people send me. First, the cute. Patty Punker gave me this. I was...
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
On the one hand, it feels like I need to come back with something profound and insightful after a six month break. (SIX MONTHS! Let’s just shelve that for now,shall we? Because I’m overwhelmed...
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Who Moved My Corn?
I need a piece of corn. Let’s try this again: Last week, I planted a mess of seedlings I’d been nurturing for months outside in some raised garden beds I recently built. They’re dead now. Apparently,...
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