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I used to do one of these every year or so. What on earth happened ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I loved rain. Chilly, wet, foggy, grey days. I preferred winter over summer. "You can always put on more clothes, but you can only get so naked!" I would say, referring to the heat vs cold debate. I was born in January, I just assumed that ice was in my bones ( Read more... )

As October, the creepiest month of the year, skitters to a close, I find that I cannot send you guys candy over the wi-fi. I promise that I tried really hard before I was forced to consume 300 Kit-Kats all by myself.

But--you guys know about the #allhallowsread project, dreamed up by Neil Gaiman, right? Where you give someone a scary book for ( Read more... )

This morning, I finally read Meghan Cox Gurdon's June 4 article for the Wall Street Journal, entitled Darkness Too VisibleI am late to the #yasaves party, I know. Probably everything I have to say has been said by others, more coherently and articulately. But I'm going to say it all again anyway, because I honestly don't think it can be said too ( Read more... )

A recipe from my hotly anticipated new cookbook, Hell Yes, You Want to Eat That With Your Face, coming to stores this fall ( Read more... )

This is why I moved back to the mountains. This weather ( Read more... )

My computer is in the post office.

I know this because there was a package slip in my PO box.

However, the post office proper closed at noon today. Because of the holiday.

Time at which I discovered this: 1:30 pm.

Three weeks, without a computer. Three weeks of this...feeling, like I've had a limb amputated while simultaneously going through ( Read more... )

1.) I finished The Book Thief last night ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that eventually I'm going to catch up on the sleep I lost during the Epic Adventure of Homelessness. AND, eventually, I will probably also make up the sleep I lost during the week before THAT. I have not related the events of that week on this blog, but just imagine getting locked in a batting cage with a machine that pitches, not ( Read more... )