Nolan and I ran to Cub yesterday because I needed bagels. Everyone at Supergenius HQ was aghast when we went to make breakfast (apples, peanut butter, bagels) only to discover the bagel cupboard was bare! Instead we made monkey bread with magic monkey crystals, real monkeys (according to Liam), and 3 wishes each in the [...]
If it weren’t for Christa’s rave review, I’d have never picked up The Song is You. See, I read Arthur Phillips’ Prague back in 2002 and was underwhelmed. After that I promptly forgot Arthur Phillip’s until Christa decided to read this latest novel. I even warned her all sassy-like, “good luck, his first novel sucked” [...]
I had no idea watching the National Spelling Bee would be so entertaining. Not only are the nerdy kids super smart and kind of quirky, but the dude handing out the spelling words was kind of sassy and snarky. “That’s the only definition I have,” he would say whenever they asked if there was an [...]
I’ve been unemployed for 10 days. Today is the first one spent entirely in pajamas. I will probably have nightmares about Sleestaks tonight, because I’m in the midst of a “Land of the Lost” marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. Wednesday I had the Tibbles, Thursday I went to a reading, Friday Jaycie & Max spent [...]
It isn’t often when my love of Rock & Roll collides so beautifully with my love literature. Last night it did at Arthur Phillips’ reading for the delightful, delectable, delovely The Song is You Phillips, who grew up in Minnesota, read in the huge Carl Pohlad hall at the Central Library in Minneapolis. The place [...]
I woke up this morning, the first time at 6:30 a.m., to discover there is a dryish, scaly-feeling sort of rash-like thing happening on the back of my neck. The right side specifically. I went to bed scale free and bam! now I have scales. Chances are I was visited by aliens while I slept. [...]
There is a sort of adage passed down from writing teacher to student, usually after workshopping a student story where the last paragraph involves the main character waking up only to discover the previous thirteen or twenty-three pages have all been a dream. Oftentimes there is an alarm clock involved. The adage goes something like [...]
If you ever find your self esteem lagging, I highly recommend losing your job as a means to boost it. Sure the impending financial calamity might be a high price to pay, but you’ll sure feel good about yourself on the way to the poorhouse. While I fully expected my friends and family to be [...]
Because I like irony or poetic justice or just bits of weird symmetry in my life, the marketing department at The Nerdery went to the very same Mexican restaurant today, on my last day, that we went to on my first day. It kind of happened by accident because none of us can make lunch [...]
Nolan sat cross-legged on the floor (a manner of sitting my niece Jaycie calls “criss-cross apple sauce” and what was called “Indian style” when I was a kid), Lucinda, my guitar, draped across his lap. Liam sat on the other side of the guitar petting the green surface. “We’re going to play so loud, we’ll [...]
Tonight, at the moment really, I’m covering an event we’re hosting at The Nerdery. It’s about building secure websites, and it’s pretty interesting. People were listening intently to the woman who is presenting, I was typing away trying to keep good notes. I looked up from my laptop and noticed half the crowd had turned [...]
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One of the very smart woman bloggers I read said recently that it’s humiliating to be held emotionally hostage by your hormones. I loved the line so much I’m ripping it off and I can’t even remember which of the very smart woman bloggers said it. If my memory or my mood were better I [...]
I promised my immune system that I would buy it something pretty if it beat off the Tibbleflu like the champ I knew it was. Well, I am here to tell my immune system isn’t getting dick. The Tibbleflu claimed me and Jaycie as a victims yesterday, and from what I hear, Sister #2 is [...]
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