One of the benefits of being a grown up is you don’t actually have to eat your peas if you don’t want to. Or “try it–just a bite!” if it looks disgusting, even if one of your relatives is forcing it on you.
I’m thinking about this, of course, because Thanksgiving is a mere three [...]
I subscribe to a great magazine called Women’s Adventure, which includes among its regular contributors author and outdoorswoman Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness, Sight Hound, etc.).
Her column in this month’s issue is about New Year’s resolutions–about how she’s always resisted them, but has decided to try it this year just to see what all [...]
This is what happens on the in-between days. We’re going backpacking tomorrow, but today we’re sitting in this hotel room, a two-laptop couple, very modern, black Lab at our feet snoozing off yesterday’s excitement.
And since I’m just sitting here waiting for friends and family to e-mail me, reading other people’s blogs, wondering if the [...]
I happened to catch on TV yesterday the second-best movie of all time (after The Princess Bride, of course). The Great Escape is one of those movies where if you’re going to watch five minutes of it, you might as well commit to the whole three and a half hours.
What makes it so spectacular? [...]
I didn’t feel like reading last week. And I may not this week. And I’m okay with that.
This may sound like blasphemy coming from a writer, but I actually think of it as therapeutic. I just came off a few intense weeks of non-stop writing and copy editing from the crack of [...]
I was listening to this great piece yesterday on NPR about the rejuvenile movement–adults returning to their childish roots. Rather than collecting toys to resell on eBay, these adults actually take them out of the box and play with them. They throw goofy theme parties, they go with adult friends to Disneyland, they [...]
Two MAJOR sightings in the past 24 hours.
First, at the National Gallery in London today, I saw our friend Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter movies. What a cutey! Tried to stare without staring. I love him. I wasn’t sure if I loved him before, but now I feel a special [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, anyone who has seen the A & E version of Pride and Prejudice knows what we mean by the wet shirt scene. My friends and I are not the only ones obsessed by it. In fact, in Bridget Jones’ Diary (the novel, not the movie), Bridget and her girlfriends [...]
Okay, yes, I am.
To prove it, I’ve come all this way across the ocean, sitting upright overnight on a plane for 10 hours, enduring 4 days of constipation (so far) (no one’s reading this, right?), so that I could go on this 3-day Jane Austen tour in the countryside of England.
Good thing I only sort [...]
I’m heading to England the day after tomorrow, and the report from my stepdaughter, whom I’m meeting over there, is that the food is very, how shall we say . . . bland.
So like loading up on vitamins, I’ve been having heavy doses of tortilla chips and salsa the past few days. I’m eating [...]
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