Sorry for your friendslists, everyone. I thought that if I posted with the backdates, they'd appear where they were dated on your feeds. That's how they were showing up on my own feed ( Read more... )

In roughly 1982, my youngest sister got onto the family Apple II+ computer and wrote out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears using the word processing software program Bank Street Writer. Liv could barely read at that point, and her writing and spelling skills were still developing. She was at most four years old. She figured out how to ( Read more... )

I'm a somewhat regular commenter at the Houston Press. I'll chime in on the food blog, the art blog and the general blog maybe five or so times a week. Once or twice a writer over there has e-mailed me after I've commented asking for clarification or more information on something I've written. There are a few people over there that know who I am ( Read more... )

Another two miles and a bit, another bag punched repeatedly ( Read more... )

The last few days have been unnecessarily death filled for me. Two days ago, I got the news that Malista had succumbed to leukemia. Today, I found out that an aquaintance beloved by the Houston book reading community suddenly died yesterday ( Read more... )

So a legitimate kurfluffle seems to have erupted over the last few weeks in the book world. I think it's a good thing.

It started, with a glowing review by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times of Freedom by Johnathan Franzen. It's no surprise that there's been a breathless anticipation in certain literary circles about this book. It's his ( Read more... )

There are very few parts of my life that I really avoid. I had a relatively ok high school experience, great college, wonderful Oxford, and awesome adulthood. Even law school, which I hated, wasn't bad on a social level ( Read more... )

So I wander onto my Flickr account last night to upload the puppies' latest photo shoot, and I come across a note someone left on one of my photos five days ago.

This picutre was taken two years ago at Burning Man on Tutu Tuesday. I make no judgment, I make no editorial comment. I simply title the photo "Men in tutus" and caption it with the ( Read more... )

So a friend of mine reconnected with an ex on facebook after 15 or so years apart. She lives here in Houston, he lives in Seattle. He came out here for New Years to see if things would work out, and I guess they had a good time. She had a few other balls in the air at the time, and while she liked a lot of things about him, I never got the ( Read more... )

I read an interesting article today on the ridiculous youtube sensation that is the Muppets. Now, comfortably middle aged, the zany puppets who came to prominence in the 1970s with "The Muppet Show" have recaptured their youthful bravado ( Read more... )