I know I usually do a Friday Five on, um, Friday. But today, instead, I am going to share a story. I have written here before about how I am obsessed these days with Ben Lee and his music. In [...]
A few random observations, on your Wednesday (as I have only a little bit of time, random is all I can do): 1. According to reports, John Edwards is dropping out of the presidential race. Which [...]
Here’s something you don’t hear me say too often: man, am I glad it’s Monday. Was it just me, or was last week kind of rough? I know it’s not just me, actually, as just [...]
The Friday Five! (Special super-short 7:20 am edition!) 1. Yep, it’s 7:20 and 21 degrees here. I’ve been up since 5:45. Good morning! 2. Our Gordon Ramsay fixation continues: [...]
I know this has been covered ad nauseum in the blogosphere, but I am so, so sad about Heath Ledger. He was such a good actor—especially in Brokeback Mountain, a movie which honestly kind of [...]
Well, this is a little surreal. Apparently, at a middle school in Arkansas, there was an author day during which a girl portrayed….me. Itis very flattering, of course, that she chose me, [...]
The Friday Five! (Special post-and-pre Winter Weather Event Edition!) 1. You read that right: yesterday, we had a Winter Weather Event here. Which means it snowed for, like, a minute, and there [...]
Yesterday, I bundled Sasha up and took her for her very first trip to the UNC campus. It had been ages since I’d been down there, and it was really nice to go back, although I have to say [...]
One thing you can say about the Golden Globes last night: they sure went a lot faster. An hour total, and since I Tivoed it I could fast forward, reducing it to even less than that. They just [...]
The Friday Five! (Special…um, I’m-too-tired-to-think-of-something-clever Edition!) 1. As my father, the Shakespeare professor, would say, all’s well that ends well. The school [...]