And In A Shocking Turn Of Events, I Talk About Music

Now I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but I do not have very balanced approach to listening to music. Because typically my approach is to find a song that I love and then listen to it OVER AND OVER AND OVER until I have told … [Continue reading]

Driving Along In Our Automobile

Yesterday the husband and I went to Madison, Mississippi for a few hours so that we could go to a party for our friends Todd and Marti. We got there in time to help with just a teensy bit of party set-up before the actual shin-dig started. (By the … [Continue reading]

Oh, Friday. You Have Been Very Good To Me.

I am sitting in my parents' living room watching a movie on AMC and checking email. I have no idea what the movie is called, but it has something to do with Natasha Henstridge running from scientists, Marg Helgenberger sporting a mullet and Ben … [Continue reading]

Look, Kids, Your Daddy Left That Facehole

Open hostility between Michael and Stanley aside, this was more of a typical "Office" episode than we've had in the last couple of weeks. But I'm telling you: when we see Michael genuinely vulnerable - like he was in the last conversation with … [Continue reading]

An Embarrassment Of Musical Riches

The first time I walked in our house, I eyed the sunken living room with wide steps on two sides, then looked at my husband and said, "If we buy this house, I want someone to come play the guitar in the living room. And I want for people to sit on … [Continue reading]

I’m Ready To Be Bored For Awhile

Right now I'm in Panera for the second time today. I was here for the first time when I met my friend Leigh for lunch, which was a luxurious hour of quickly devouring a chicken Caesar salad so that I could spend the rest of my lunch telling Alex to … [Continue reading]