Fresh month, long days, plenty of time to do all the things you need to/want to do. Here’s a few to get you started:
1. Enter my monthly chocolate drawing. NOW. I cannot adequately describe to you how happy you’ll be when the delivery person pulls up to your door and hands [...]
There was a piece in the NY Times a few Sundays ago about books that inspired various writers’ wanderlust. Stephen Colbert said he’s always wanted to go to Middle Earth. I just want to go to New Zealand. I want to see each and every location where they shot Lord of the [...]
It’s such a relief when sweeps season arrives, because it means I can almost reclaim my life. Just two more episodes of Lost, Alias is ending, Grey’s Anatomy had its cliff-hanger Monday night–soon families will go back to playing Scrabble and throwing the football in the back yard. Hypothetical families.
I had such a [...]
I got home from Oregon late, late last night, and what should I find waiting for me? A huge box of chocolates, just like the kind I’ll send you if you win my Monthly Free Chocolate Drawing.
I decided to send it to myself to make sure it’s of the quality I think you deserve. [...]
Yesterday we were confessing our guilty tv pleasures, today it’s paperback books.
We’re heading into summer. And in keeping with our books vs. gas discussion, we’ll keep the vacation reading cheap. So here’s the question: what book can we buy right now in paperback that will take us away from life as we [...]
I both admire and am appalled by people who don’t own a TV. You may have noticed in the comments to my post “The 50-novel challenge” that my web designer, BJ, is one of those people. Here I am, touting the thrill and challenge of reading 50 novels in a year, and BJ [...]