I’ve had a long history with The Time Traveler’s Wife. I first saw it for a ridiculously cheap price in a used book store at the peak of it’s popularity, but didn’t pick it up and I regretted it. Shortly thereafter, my mother-in-law let me have the copy she was … [ more ]

I

Sid Meier's Civilization

never got into Farmville, Mafia Wars or just about any Facebook games. The only two I’ve really taken to playing casually are Scramble or Scrabble, but I am expected that all to change this June when Civilization comes the Facebook.

Civ II is my favorite game ever ever.

I … [ more ]

While we were using hydrogen peroxide on our couch, Selena mentioned that when she was sick as a kid her parents had her gargle a combination of hydrogen peroxide with salt.

What?!?!

I don’t know what to say about that. In the moment, my only response was, “I am very glad that … [ more ]

On our wedding day, we had cupcakes for the guests and a small 6″ topper cake for the traditional cake cutting. When it came time to cut the cake, the knife wouldn’t go down. At first we thought it was a joke. We tried two different knives, we sawed at … [ more ]

Before the race

After the race with the mascot

Having just found my camera over the weekend, I can finally post up photos from my run with my friend Kim and her son Timmy in November. We were supporting our old high school’s journalism program, which was just “the thing” everybody … [ more ]

What the heck was that?

One of Sookie’s habits (we finally decided on Sookie, being True Blood fans) that we are trying to break is her habit of biting. There’s a lot of leeway there, because most of it is puppy energy, combined with her teething stage, but as those … [ more ]

Today I walked on the porch and saw this:

I think Greg doesn’t understand how to pranks work. Isn’t it usually someone else’s home, not your own?

Someone posed an interesting question the other day: “Is Katy Perry here to stay?” He wanted to know if there were any other contenders out there besides Katy Perry to be the next Madonna or Britney Spears. Before you balk at putting Perry in the same ballpark as Madge, consider … [ more ]

Two weeks ago, a Uhaul truck pulled up and the two 20-something sons of the Spy spent the day moving out. I stopped and chatted with the girlfriend of the son of the Spy, not really knowing what to say. What I learned was that Spy himself had actually passed … [ more ]

In 6th grade I loved hair bands, I knew them all: Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi, Motley Crew and even the less prominent Europe, White Lion or Winger, dreadful awful Winger. And while I enjoyed all those mentioned (except Winger, they were terrible), the hair band I enjoyed above … [ more ]