Best of 2008
Every year I think I’m going to write some kind of end-of-the-year summary, and every year I don’t, in part...
I can quit any time . . .
I thought, I really did, that I was probably addicted to Altoids Ginger Mints. Classic signs of addiction – increasing...
It’s a piano!!!
Even dogs couldn’t hear the noise she made when she found out that what we had been disguising as a...
Done!
With my hatred of malls verging on the pathological (though, with news of Christmas shopping gridlock locally, entirely justified), a...
Nutcracker, Nutcracker, Nutcracker
Off to the Nutcracker, our raison d’etre from October to Christmas. The girls are soldiers and mice this year, playing...
WTF: Dondi edition
I was recently thinking back to Sunday dinners when I was a kid, when we would go over to my...
Ridiculous, sublime
Ridiculous: Spam that has for its subject, “Invest in a hedge fund today!” I mean, seriously. Who would even open...
Who says I’m not hip and with it?
The American Film Institute just came out with its Top 10 Films of 2008 and I’ll have you know that,...
The ice this time
Day 5 and counting since all this started. Schools are closed once again, partly because they’re being used as shelters,...
Fire and ice
I’d have to say the most exciting part of the day was definitely when the yard was on fire. Though...