Speaking of journeys…
March 10, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
What, you’re kicking around the Internets reading this and that when you should be working? If so, head over to Brain,Child, where, among a lot of awfully good writing, Jen and Steph were peachy enough to post my essay about a long, long bus ride I took with C.
If anyone reading is from...
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Two Questions
February 28, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
1) Chowing down on Mexy food with Beulah last weekend, this came up: “What is the most valuable thing in your house?”
We’re not talking 401K or your car or the various bits of trophy jewelry on your bod. We’re talking in your house. And we’re talking cash value, not sentimental: what did you...
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December Red #2
December 31, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I know what you’re thinking: this entry has nothing whatsoever to do with The 50th State, she’s just here to brag about the perfect little Christmas present she got from her way-cool husband.
And it’s true, it’s hard for me not to be a bit puffed up with pride, and I understand completely if...
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Asshead in Alaska
November 27, 2007
Filed in: Alaska, The Middle Ages
Do you have a wild and crazy friend from college? Someone who was way, way naughtier than you were (however bad that may or may not have been)? Someone with or from whom you were almost infected, arrested, addicted, ejected, indicted or all of the above?
Me too. Aren’t they great? For me, those...
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Getting/Spending/Laying Waste
October 26, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I loathe when people tell you how busy they are. I’m like, save it, Sistah, we’re all busy, it’s a busy world out there.
Having said that, it’s been a rough patch of busy-ness here in Swellville, and not the we-sure-are-living-full-lives kind, more the slog-till-you-drop kind.
Which is maybe...
