Fear Factor
June 25, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I’m not really thinking of what’s happening tomorrow morning as a vacation. Adventure, yes. Trip-of-a-lifetime, yes. But vacation?
To our little family, vacation means plunking down a hunk of money for a house somewhere nice, then parking our butts in front of whatever nicest body of water is...
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Yeah, we got baggage
June 22, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front
Way back in February, when I was just beginning to contemplate the idea of tagging an Alaska trip onto the family wedding in Napa that’s now upcoming this very week, I mentioned the idea to my friend M.
M is perfect. Literally. She is a size zero, an understated-yet-stylish dresser, a mad...
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Ignoreland
June 15, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
There is a growing list of mainstream media story types I simply cannot read anymore, no matter who they’re written by or how important a publication they appear in.
Witness one: today’s uber-boring cover article in the NYT Mag. Wow, people in the 21st century who have children sometimes decide...
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You better listen to the radio
June 12, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I’m not being bossy, I’m quoting Elvis Costello.
Reading my various frantic bits, you’d never guess, but I do have a day job. And today—well, actually a couple of weeks ago, but airing today—I was on the radio.
Fun, in a slightly disembodied kind of way.
On my list of small anomalies of...
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Down to Zero
June 08, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Way back in February when I booked our now rapidly approaching Alaska trip, I was sure as shootin’ I’d have a couple of juicy writing assignments under my belt to finance this thing by the actual time of departure, if not a book deal.
In between then and now, the economy tanked and tanked and...
