On August 24th Selena and I will be briefly at the bookstore and then locked in the house taking turns watching the baby and reading the final book of The Hunger Games trilogy…

If you are an avid reader and friends with Selena then she has probably encouraged you to read The … [ more ]

Selena and I scurried down to the National Book Festival on the Mall last Saturday to get there just in time to see author extrodinaire Niel Gaimen’s half hour talk. As we walked in and I saw him standing in about 105 degree humidity in long pants and a … [ more ]

Selena and I recently finished reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. You can find it rated and updated on  Selena or my GoodReads page, if you are part of that social network (or if you want to be, please join and befriend).

What I found most interesting about this book was not … [ more ]

When the Express, (the crappy Washington Post lite run by interns free paper for Metro riders), ran a front-page photo last week of a woman in a burqa enduring the freezing weather in Afghanistan, I read the article.

I probably would have just flipped by it two weeks ago, it wouldn’t … [ more ]

Having both finished reading the Harry Potter series this week, Selena and I were left with one question “What are our horcruxes?” If we were to have to put the extremist importance on inanimate objects, which ones would we choose?

Here’s what we’ve come up with so far:

Selena’s … [ more ]

The walk from Rockville metro to our home is incredibly short, but there is a brief five foot span through a path that is in a dark, shadowy area through some trees. Yesterday, I was only subconsciously aware of my surroundings as I was walking through this particularly dimly lit … [ more ]