Yesterday the man and I agreed on a wedding date, then I came home from work and made an apple pie. Halfway through the coring/slicing/cinnamonification I realized: jeepers. I’m turning into a regular housewife.
That thought was scary enough to make me consider, semi-seriously, jabbing the the coring knife straight into my chest and adding my innards to the [...]

I would say it’s a running joke between our offices, but it wasn’t ever very funny to begin with. For almost two years now, every time I wander downstairs to get the mail, the school receptionist asks me if her million dollar check was misdelivered to our box.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha….
For first 365 days I managed to hold my [...]

Today marks my fifth day eating a vegan diet.
Yes, I am currently vegan in addition to being gluten-free and sugar free. Yes, there is plenty of food to eat. And yes, I do eat it. No, I haven’t given up wearing leather, nor do I plan to pour paint on any fur coats. I won’t berate anyone about their [...]

Saw this shelf at a bookstore in the MSP airport on Sunday:

Scientology tomes beat F. Scott Fitzgerald 5:1!
I, of course, find deep meaning behind Hubbard’s shelfmates: John McCain and Garrison Keillor. Hmm… The serial killer Dexter, too, looms just above the alien abduction freakshow–I mean religious texts.
(We’ll just assume Denis Johnson’s presence was a fluke).
Thanks but I’ll stick [...]

It’s almost noon on 9/11 and so far not a single person has mentioned–even casually–that something might have happened on this date in relatively recent history. Not a one. Nobody even gave me that wordless half-grin/half-grimace that means “I have no idea what to say, but I want you to know I care.” Oh, well. [...]

I have a hard time getting dressed in September. The mornings are cold up in the mountains. I’m talking iced-over windshields. It’s hard to imagine, as I’m scraping my car at 7:00 in the morning, that the day will warm up enough to warrant sandals. It’s also hard to make myself scrape my durned windshield in the [...]

Ever in search of the perfect pair of footwear, I’m also enough of a pragmatist to realize that such a lofty goal can never be realized. My favorite boots in WYO won’t work on NYC streets–at least not without an additional couple hundred bucks budgeted to cabs. I guess I’ll have to pass on the four [...]